The Harvester Tool: Email Harvesting & Ethical Hacking Tutorial on Kali Linux.

jerrybanfield (74)in #tutorial • 6 years ago

Hello everybody and welcome back. In this tutorial we will cover the email harvesting tool which is basically called, The Harvester.

The Harvester Tool: Email Harvesting & Ethical Hacking Tutorial on Kali Linux.

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So, in the last tutorial I checked out if we have it installed already and we do.

So I will just locate it and we will run it because I already tried to run it from here and it just doesn’t work.

So let’s just locate it first and we can see that it is stored in this directory usr/share/golismero/tools.

So we will just go to that directory and we can see here a few programs and we will change our directory to theHarvester.

So if we type here cd theHarvester we can see that right here we have an executable Python file which we will run in order to run this program.

I just want to tell you that this program basically doesn’t work from time to time.

So, for example, once I run it, it might print us the emails and it might not. Because I ran this a bunch of times on the same website and it sometimes just finds a lot of things and sometimes it just doesn’t find anything.

So if we just run this program it will show us an error and it will say “The domain search is mandatory.” So we basically need to specify our domain website.

So let me just type here the help option which is theHarvester.py -h and it will show us our available options.

Here we can see that the -d is basically specifying the domain or company name to search for.

The -b is engine. So, the search engine. By default it will be Google as it says right here. We want to leave it on that since I believe Google is the best.