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The Harvester - Recon Part 1





What is TheHarvester ?



The Harvester can also pull up associated domains and hostnames of a target. We are able to probe for more information about the domain, subdomain, and organization. In this case, we learned about a hostname IP.



Installing TheHarvester on Kali Linux ?



You can sometimes run:

 >> apt-get theharvester 

and Kali will fetch this for you, but in my case, it didn't work. So instead, clone it directly and confirm the installation by running the following in terminal.

So letus Try Another Method To Install The Harvester:

>>git clone https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester.git
>>cd theHarvester
>>sudo python ./theHarvester.py


Getting Started:



With each command, theHarvester will run searches on multiple platforms to find email addresses and websites related to the organization or domain you specify.To initiate a harvester search, you'll need to spell out a couple variables for the script to understand.

>>theharvester

Usage: theharvester options 

       -d: Domain to search or company name
       -b: data source: google, googleCSE, bing, bingapi, pgp, linkedin,
                        google-profiles, jigsaw, twitter, googleplus, all

       -s: Start in result number X (default: 0)
       -v: Verify host name via dns resolution and search for virtual hosts
       -f: Save the results into an HTML and XML file (both)
       -n: Perform a DNS reverse query on all ranges discovered
       -c: Perform a DNS brute force for the domain name
       -t: Perform a DNS TLD expansion discovery
       -e: Use this DNS server
       -l: Limit the number of results to work with(bing goes from 50 to 50 results,
            google 100 to 100, and pgp doesn't use this option)
       -h: use SHODAN database to query discovered hosts

Examples:
        theharvester -d microsoft.com -l 500 -b google -h myresults.html
        theharvester -d microsoft.com -b pgp
        theharvester -d microsoft -l 200 -b linkedin
        theharvester -d apple.com -b googleCSE -l 500 -s 300


Searching For Emails Using TheHarvester:


The most simple search you can run looks like this:

>> theHarvester.py -d hackerscreed.com -b all -l 200


In the script, we're telling it to pull from all data sources and to limit the results to 200 results.



Moving to Advanced Stuff:


Using the -s argument to ignore false-hits within the first few results by specifying how far back in the results can help, as can running a deep scan of 1,000–5,000 results on each engine individually, can yield additional data on a target.you can save them to an HTML file using the -f option followed by the name to save the file as.


>> root@hackerXcreed:~# theharvester -d hackerscreed.co.in -s 100 -l 200 -b all

*******************************************************************
*                                                                 *
* | |_| |__   ___    /\  /\__ _ _ ____   _____  ___| |_ ___ _ __  *
* | __| '_ \ / _ \  / /_/ / _` | '__\ \ / / _ \/ __| __/ _ \ '__| *
* | |_| | | |  __/ / __  / (_| | |   \ V /  __/\__ \ ||  __/ |    *
*  \__|_| |_|\___| \/ /_/ \__,_|_|    \_/ \___||___/\__\___|_|    *
*                                                                 *
* TheHarvester Ver. 2.7                                           *
* Coded by Christian Martorella                                   *
* Edge-Security Research                                          *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com                                   *
*******************************************************************


Full harvest..
[-] Searching in Google..
Searching 100 results...
Searching 200 results...
[-] Searching in PGP Key server..
[-] Searching in Bing..
Searching 150 results...
Searching 200 results...
[-] Searching in Exalead..
Searching 150 results...
Searching 200 results...
Searching 250 results...
...
...
...


So That's it ! For The First Tutorial Hope You Enjoyed the Tutorial !
Dont Forget to Comment.
HackerXcreed

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