/theHarvester

E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT

Primary LanguagePython

theHarvester

Build Status Language grade: Python Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory

What is this?

theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early statges of a
penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a
company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using
multiple public data sources that include:

Passive:

  • baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com

  • bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com

  • bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)

  • Bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/

  • CertSpotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/

  • crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh/

  • dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com/

  • dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com

  • duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com

  • Exalead: a Meta search engine - www.exalead.com/search

  • github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com

  • google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com

  • hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io

  • intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io

  • linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com

  • netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com

  • otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - otx.alienvault.com

  • securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data
    (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com

  • shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts - www.shodanhq.com

  • Spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - spyse.com

  • Suip: Web research tools that can take over 10 minutes to run, but worth the wait - suip.biz

  • threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org

  • trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)

  • twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)

  • vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

  • virustotal: virustotal.com domain search

  • yahoo: Yahoo search engine

Active:

  • DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration

Modules that require an API key:

Add your keys to api-keys.yaml

  • bing
  • github
  • hunter
  • intelx
  • securityTrails
  • shodan
  • spyse

Install and dependencies:

Comments, bugs and requests:

Main contributors:

  • Twitter Follow Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
  • Twitter Follow Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
  • Twitter Follow Lee Baird @discoverscripts
  • LinkedIn Janos Zold

Thanks:

  • John Matherly - Shodan project
  • Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)