theHarvester

What is this?

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 that include:

Passive modules:

• anubis: Anubis-DB - https://github.com/jonluca/anubis

• bevigil: CloudSEK BeVigil scans mobile application for OSINT assets (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://bevigil.com/osint-api

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

• binaryedge: List of known subdomains (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.binaryedge.io

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

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

• brave: Brave search engine - https://search.brave.com/

• bufferoverun: (Requires an API key, see below.) https://tls.bufferover.run

• censys: Censys search engine will use certificates searches to enumerate subdomains and gather emails
  
  (Requires an API key, see below.) https://censys.io

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

• criminalip: Specialized Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.criminalip.io

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

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

• duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - https://duckduckgo.com

• fullhunt: Next-generation attack surface security platform (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://fullhunt.io

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

• hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com

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

• hunterhow: Internet search engines for security researchers (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://hunter.how

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

• netlas: A Shodan or Censys competitor (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://app.netlas.io

• onyphe: Cyber defense search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.onyphe.io/

• otx: AlienVault open threat exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com

• pentestTools: Cloud-based toolkit for offensive security testing, focused on web applications and network penetration
  
  testing (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://pentest-tools.com/

• projecDiscovery: We actively collect and maintain internet-wide assets data, to enhance research and analyse changes around
  
  DNS for better insights (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://chaos.projectdiscovery.io

• rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io

• rocketreach: Access real-time verified personal/professional emails, phone numbers, and social media links (Requires an API key,
  
  see below.) - https://rocketreach.co

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

• -s, --shodan: Shodan search engine will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts (Requires an API key, see below.)
  
  https://shodan.io

• sitedossier: Find available information on a site - http://www.sitedossier.com

• subdomaincenter: A subdomain finder tool used to find subdomains of a given domain - https://www.subdomain.center/

• subdomainfinderc99: A subdomain finder is a tool used to find the subdomains of a given domain - https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl

• threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/

• tomba: Tomba search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://tomba.io

• urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io

• vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

• virustotal: Domain search (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.virustotal.com

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

• zoomeye: China’s version of Shodan (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.zoomeye.org

Active modules:

• DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
• Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found

Modules that require an API key:

Documentation to setup API keys can be found at - https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation#api-keys

• bevigil - Free upto 50 queries. Pricing can be found here: https://bevigil.com/pricing/osint
• binaryedge - $10/month
• bing
• bufferoverun - uses the free API
• censys - API keys are required and can be retrieved from your Censys account.
• criminalip
• fullhunt
• github
• hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan, so you will need to do -l 10 switch
• hunterhow
• intelx
• netlas - $
• onyphe -$
• pentestTools - $
• projecDiscovery - invite only for now
• rocketreach - $
• securityTrails
• shodan - $
• tomba - Free up to 50 search.
• zoomeye

Install and dependencies:

• Python 3.11+
• 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

Thanks:

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