theHarvester

This tool is used to gather e-mail accounts, usernames, hostnames, subdomains from public sources such as google, bing and Linkedin. In penetration testing, this is part of performing enumeration or footprinting a network

Supported sources are:

• Google – emails, subdomain and hostnames
• Google profiles – locate employee names connected with the domain
• Bing search – emails, subdomain, hostnames and virtual hosts
• Linkedin – locate employee names connected with the domain
• Exalead – emails, subdomain and hostnames

 Command Use:

1. cd /pentest/enumeration/theharvestor
2. ./theHarvester.py –d <target site> -l <max number of  returned results> –b <source of gathering, ex: google>