theHarvester 2.2a Coded by Christian Martorella cmartorella@edge-security.com

What is this?

theHarvester is a tool for gathering e-mail accounts, subdomain names, 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 actual sources are:

Passive:

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

-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)

-pgp: pgp key server - pgp.rediris.es

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

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

-vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

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

Dependencies:

none

Changelog 2.2a:

-Fixed Linkedin parser (thanks Alton Johnson and Francesco Stillavato) -New banner with superpowers

Changelogin 2.2:

-Added Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) -Added 123People (www.123people.com) -Added limit to google searches as the maximum results we can obtain is 1000 -Removed SET, as service was discontinued by Google -Fixed parser to remove wrong results like emails starting with @

Changelog in 2.1:

-DNS Bruteforcer -DNS Reverse lookups -DNS TDL Expansion -SHODAN DB integration -HTML report -DNS server selection

Changelog in 2.0:

-Complete rewrite, more modular and easy to maintain -New sources (Exalead, Google-Profiles, Bing-Api) -Time delay between request, to prevent search engines from blocking our IP´s -You can start the search from the results page that you want, hence you can resume a search -Export to xml -All search engines harvesting

TODO:

See TODO file.

Comments? Bugs? requests?

cmartorella@edge-security.com

Updates:

http://code.google.com/p/theharvester/

Thanks:

John Matherly - SHODAN project Lee Baird for suggestions and bugs reporting