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The Harvester

What is The Harvester

theHarvester is a simple to use, yet powerful tool designed to be used during the reconnaissance stage of a red team assessment or penetration test. It performs open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a domain's external threat landscape. The tool gathers names, emails, IPs, subdomains, and URLs by using multiple public resources

Command

theHarvester.py -d
  • -d ---> Domain

More information

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* theHarvester 4.3.0-dev                                          *
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usage: theHarvester.py [-h] -d DOMAIN [-l LIMIT] [-S START] [-p] [-s]
                       [--screenshot SCREENSHOT] [-v] [-e DNS_SERVER] [-r]
                       [-n] [-c] [-f FILENAME] [-b SOURCE]

theHarvester is used to gather open source intelligence (OSINT) on a company
or domain.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DOMAIN, --domain DOMAIN
                        Company name or domain to search.
  -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                        Limit the number of search results, default=500.
  -S START, --start START
                        Start with result number X, default=0.
  -p, --proxies         Use proxies for requests, enter proxies in
                        proxies.yaml.
  -s, --shodan          Use Shodan to query discovered hosts.
  --screenshot SCREENSHOT
                        Take screenshots of resolved domains specify output
                        directory: --screenshot output_directory
  -v, --virtual-host    Verify host name via DNS resolution and search for
                        virtual hosts.
  -e DNS_SERVER, --dns-server DNS_SERVER
                        DNS server to use for lookup.
  -r, --take-over       Check for takeovers.
  -n, --dns-lookup      Enable DNS server lookup, default False.
  -c, --dns-brute       Perform a DNS brute force on the domain.
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
                        Save the results to an XML and JSON file.
  -b SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                        anubis, baidu, bevigil, binaryedge, bing, bingapi,
                        bufferoverun, censys, certspotter, crtsh, dnsdumpster,
                        duckduckgo, fullhunt, github-code, hackertarget,
                        hunter, intelx, otx, pentesttools, projectdiscovery,
                        qwant, rapiddns, rocketreach, securityTrails,
                        sublist3r, threatcrowd, threatminer, urlscan,
                        virustotal, yahoo, zoomeye