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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:

• 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

• 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

• 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

• venacus: Venacus search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) -https://venacus.com

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

• whoisxml: Subdomain search (Requires an API key, see below.) -https://subdomains.whoisxmlapi.com/api/pricing

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

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

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

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
• bing
• bufferoverun - uses the free binaAPI
• censys - API keys are required and can be retrieved from yourCensys 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.
• venacus - $
• whoisxml
• zoomeye

• Python 3.11+
• https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation

• Christian Martorella @laramiescmartorella@edge-security.com
• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
• Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1

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

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