Information Gathering part3 Using The Harvester tool


theharvester – A tool for gathering e-mail accounts and subdomain names from public sources.

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 objective of this program is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database.

Passive:
--------
-google: google search engine  - www.google.com

-googleCSE: google custom search engine

-google-profiles: google search engine, specific search for Google profiles

-bing: microsoft search engine  - www.bing.com

-bingapi: microsoft search engine, through the API (you need to add your Key in
          the discovery/bingsearch.py file)

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

-pgp: pgp key server - mit.edu

-linkedin: google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users

-vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

-twitter: twitter accounts related to an specific domain (uses google search)

-googleplus: users that works in target company (uses google search)

-yahoo: Yahoo search engine

-baidu: Baidu search engine

-shodan: Shodan Computer search engine, will search for ports and banner of the
         discovered hosts  (http://www.shodanhq.com/)

Active:
-------
-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

Modules that need API keys to work:
----------------------------------
-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

Simply Download and extract it

Provide execute permission to: theHarvester.py by [chmod 755 theHavester.py]

Then simply run  ./theharvester

No comments:

Post a Comment