theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early stages 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:
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baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
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bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
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bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/
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certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
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crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh
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dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com
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duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
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exalead: a Meta search engine - www.exalead.com/search
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github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
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google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
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hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com
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hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
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intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
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linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com
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linkedin_links:
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netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
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otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
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pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Needs an API key and is not free for API access) - https://pentest-tools.com/home
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projecdiscovery: We actively collect and maintain internet-wide assets data, to enhance research and analyse changes around DNS for better insights - https://chaos.projectdiscovery.io (Requires an API key)
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qwant: Qwant search engine - www.qwant.com
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rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
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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
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spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - https://spyse.com
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sublist3r: Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers - https://api.sublist3r.com/search.php?domain=example.com
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threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
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threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
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trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
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twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
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urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
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vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
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virustotal: virustotal.com domain search
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yahoo: Yahoo search engine
- DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
- Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found
Documentation to setup API keys can be found at - https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation#api-keys
- bing
- github
- hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan so you will ned to do -l 10 switch
- intelx
- pentesttools
- projecdiscovery - invite only for now
- securityTrails
- shodan
- spyse - need to have a paid account be able to use the api now
Christian Martorella @laramies [email protected]
Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
Lee Baird @discoverscripts
Janos Zold
- John Matherly - Shodan project
- Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)