TekTip ep6 - Passive Information Gathering with TheHarvester

The Harvester: Created by Edge-Security

Default BT Location: /pentest/enumeration/theharvester

theharvester is a great passive information gathering tool that is immensly helpful in blind pentests.  

Notable options

-d: for the domain

-f: export to html/xml

-c: DNS bruteforce

-n: Reverse DNS query

-l: limit the number of results

-b: Where to search

** "-b all" does not actually include all sources.

examples:

./theharvester.py -d tekdefense.com -l 100 -n -b all

./theharvester.py -d securitytube.net -l 100 -n -b linkedin

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