TheHarvester is a tool to collect email accounts, usernames and hostnames/subdomains from different public sources like search engines and PGP key servers.
This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the project. It’s a really simple tool, but very effective.
The sources supported are:
- Google – emails,subdomains/hostnames
- Google profiles – Employee names
- Bing search – emails, subdomains/hostnames,virtual hosts
- Pgp servers – emails, subdomains/hostnames
- Linkedin – Employee names
- Exalead – emails,subdomain/hostnames
Some examples:
- Searching emails accounts for the domain microsoft.com, it will work with the first 500 google results.
./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 500 -b google
- Searching emails accounts for the domain microsoft.com in a PGP server, here it’s not necessary to specify the limit.
./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -b pgp
Searching for user names that works in the company microsoft, we use google as search engine, so we need to specify the limit of results we want to use:
Searching for user names that works in the company microsoft, we use google as search engine, so we need to specify the limit of results we want to use:
./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 200 -b linkedin
- Searching in all sources at the same time, with a limit of 200 results: