TheHarvester v 2.0 - Collects email accounts, usernames and hostnames

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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:

./theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 200 -b linkedin

• Searching in all sources at the same time, with a limit of 200 results:

./theHarvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 200 -b all

Download TheHarvester v 2.0

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