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* TheHarvester Ver. 3.0.2 *
* Coded by Christian Martorella *
* Edge-Security Research *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com *
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theHarvester is a tool for gathering subdomain names, e-mail addresses, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources (search engines, pgp key servers).
Is a really simple tool, but very effective for the early stages of a penetration test or just to know the visibility of your company in the Internet.
The sources are:
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threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - https://www.threatcrowd.org/
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crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - www.crt.sh
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google: google search engine - www.google.com (With optional google dorking)
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googleCSE: google custom search engine
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google-profiles: google search engine, specific search for Google profiles
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bing: microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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bingapi: microsoft search engine, through the API (you need to add your Key in the discovery/bingsearch.py file)
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dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com
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pgp: pgp key server - mit.edu
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linkedin: google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users
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vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
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twitter: twitter accounts related to an specific domain (uses google search)
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googleplus: users that works in target company (uses google search)
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yahoo: Yahoo search engine
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baidu: Baidu search engine
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shodan: Shodan Computer search engine, will search for ports and banner of the discovered hosts (http://www.shodanhq.com/)
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hunter: Hunter search engine (you need to add your Key in the discovery/huntersearch.py file)
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google-certificates: Google Certificate Transparency report
- DNS brute force: this plugin will run a dictionary brute force enumeration
- DNS reverse lookup: reverse lookup of ip´s discovered in order to find hostnames
- DNS TDL expansion: TLD dictionary brute force enumeration
- googleCSE: You need to create a Google Custom Search engine(CSE), and add your Google API key and CSE ID in the plugin (discovery/googleCSE.py)
- shodan: You need to provide your API key in discovery/shodansearch.py (one provided at the moment)
- hunter: You need to provide your API key in discovery/huntersearch.py (none is provided at the moment)
- Requests library (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/)
pip install requests
- Beautiful Soup 4 (https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4//)
pip install beautifulsoup4
- Subdomain takeover checks
- Port scanning (basic)
- Improved DNS dictionary
- Shodan DB search fixed
- Result storage in Sqlite
https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester
- Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel
- Janos Zold @Jzod
- John Matherly - SHODAN project
- Lee Baird for suggestions and bugs reporting
- Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionary (big and small)