Information Gathering by The Harvester in kali linux -[by hackers creed]-

introduction

 

Today we will learn about Information Gathering using theHarvester inKali Linux. Good information gathering can make the difference between a successful penetration test and one that has failed to provide maximum benefit to the client.TheHarvester has been developed in Python by Christian Martorella. It is a tool which provides us information about e-mail accounts, user names and hostnames/subdomains from different public sources like search engines and PGP key server.This tool is designed to help the penetration tester on an earlier stage; it is an effective, simple and easy to use. The sources supported are:Google – emails, subdomainsGoogle profiles – Employee namesBing search – emails, subdomains/hostnames, virtual hostsPgp servers – emails, subdomains/hostnamesLinkedIn – Employee namesExalead – emails, subdomain/hostnamesNew features:Time delays between requestsXML results exportSearch a domain in all sourcesVirtual host verifier

letus get started

Let’s get started,If you are usingKali Linux,
>>open the terminal and type
>>theharvester If not then it can be easily downloaded from here:

>>https://github.com/laramies/theHarvesterSimply
Download and extract it provide execute permission to
:theHarvester.py by [chmod 755 theHavester.py]

Then simply run./theharvesterYou will see similar to this
Here I am usingkali linux.

Method:1
You can simply use the commantheHarvester 
>>
-d [url] -l 300 -b [search engine name]
For example:
>>theHarvester -d sixthstartech.com-l 300 -b google

Which will result as in the screenshot below:

Method:2

To get all the information about the website u can use the command 

>>as:theHarvester -d sixthstartech.com -l 300 -b all

Which will result as:Method:3To save the result in HTML file you can use–foption followed by a file 

name,Example:

>>theHarvester.py -d sixthstartech.com  -l 300 -b all -f testThe result in HTML File

That’s it and hoped this helped you!!