AXaxiomdata316·Jun 17, 2021Submission
TheHarvester: Emails, subdomains and names harvester for OSINT
90 points · Open discussionlaramies
theHarvester
Python2013–2021
laramies / theHarvester
theHarvester
E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT
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E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesHere is a list of osint tools I compiled after a fairly recent review for those who don't like maltego:
https://www.spiderfoot.net/
https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint
https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester
https://github.com/aancw/Belati
https://github.com/intrigueio/intrigue-core
https://osintframework.com/
https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon
https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng
https://github.com/kpcyrd/sn0int
In Maltego – open-source intelligence and graphical link analysis toolI wanted to contact people from some companies but their email was not in their profiles, I found this script in github https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester which looks for emails given a domain.
Is super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company:
first_name@domain.com
first_name.last_name@domain.com
Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly.
This is perfect for doing customer development, also if you are doing cold reach outs remember to follow the CAN-SPAM act.
In The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses