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In this article you will learn about Information Gathering using
theHarvestor in kali linux.
Good information gathering can make the difference between a successful
penetration test and one that has failed to provide maximum benefit to the
client.
TheHarvester has been developed in Python by Christian Martorella. It is a
tool which provides us information about e-mail accounts, user names and
hostnames/subdomains from different public sources like search engines and
PGP key server.
This tool is designed to help the penetration tester on an earlier stage; it
is an effective, simple and easy to use.
The sources supported are:
Google – emails, subdomains
Google profiles – Employee names
Bing search – emails,
subdomains/hostnames, virtual hosts
Pgp servers – emails,
subdomains/hostnames
LinkedIn – Employee names
Exalead – emails, subdomain/hostnames
New features:
Time delays between requests
XML results export
Search a domain in all sources
Virtual host verifier
So, Let’s get started,
If you are using Kali Linux, open the terminal and type
theharvester
If not then it can be easily downloaded by "Clicking here"
Simply Download and extract it
Provide execute permission by typing,
theHarvester.py by [chmod 755 theHavester.py]
Then simply run
./theharvester
You will see similar to this:
Method:1
You can simply use the command
theHarvester -d [url] -l 300 -b [search engine name]
For example:
theHarvester -d sixthstartech.com -l 300 -b google
Which will result as in the screenshot below:
Method:2
To get all the information about the website u can use the command as:
theHarvester -d sixthstartech.com -l 300 -b all
Which will result as:
Method:3
To save the result in HTML file you can use –f option followed by a file
name,
Example:
theHarvester.py -d sixthstartech.com -l 300 -b all -f test
The result in HTML File:
Hope you understood the process, if you have any doubt feel free to ask in
comment section or in a message ; )
Thank you for Reading ; )
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