What is this?

theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early statges of a
penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a
company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using
multiple public data sources that include:

Passive:

• baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com

• bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com

• bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)

• Bufferoverun: Uses data from Rapid7's Project Sonar - www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/

• CertSpotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/

• crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh/

• dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com/

• dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com

• duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com

• Exalead: a Meta search engine - www.exalead.com/search

• github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com

• google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com

• hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io

• intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io

• linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for LinkedIn users - www.linkedin.com

• netcraft: Internet Security and Data Mining - www.netcraft.com

• otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - otx.alienvault.com

• securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data
  (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com

• shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts - www.shodanhq.com

• Spyse: Web research tools for professionals (Requires an API key.) - spyse.com

• Suip: Web research tools that can take over 10 minutes to run, but worth the wait - suip.biz

• threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org

• trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)

• twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)

• vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

• virustotal: virustotal.com domain search

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

Active:

• DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration

Modules that require an API key:

Add your keys to api-keys.yaml

• bing
• github
• hunter
• intelx
• securityTrails
• shodan
• spyse

Install and dependencies:

• Python 3.7+
• python3 -m pip install pipenv
• https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation

Comments, bugs and requests:

• Christian Martorella @laramies [email protected]
• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
• Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1

Main contributors:

• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
• Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
• Lee Baird @discoverscripts
• Janos Zold

Thanks:

• John Matherly - Shodan project
• Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)