Tutorial: theHarvester – Collect a Company’s Email Addresses, Subdomains, Related Servers

What is theHarvester?

TheHarvester has been developed in Python by Christian Martorella. It is a tool which provides us information of 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, subdomains/hostnames
• Google profiles – Employee names
• Bing search – emails, subdomains/hostnames, virtual hosts
• Pgp servers – emails, subdomains/hostnames
• LinkedIn – Employee names
• Exalead – emails, subdomain/hostnames

New features:

• Time delays between requests
• XML results export
• Search a domain in all sources
• Virtual host verifier

Getting Started:

Go to the Arsenal -] scanning -] web scanner -] theharvester.

In case, if it is not available in your distribution, than you can easily download it from http://code.google.com/p/theharvester/downlaod, where latest version 2.2 is available, simply download it and extract it.

Provide execute permission to the theHarvester.py by [chmod 755 theHavester.py]

After getting in to that, simply run. /theharvester, it will display version and other option that can be used with this tool with detailed description.

>The information gathering steps of footprinting and scanning are of utmost importance. Good information gathering can make the difference between a successful penetration test and one that has failed to provide maximum benefit to the client. We can say that Information is a weapon, a successful penetration testing and a hacking process need a lots of relevant information that is why, information gathering so called foot printing is the first step of hacking. So, gathering valid login names and emails are one of the most important parts for penetration testing. We can use these to profile our target, brute force authentication systems, send client-side attacks (through phishing), look through social networks for juicy info on platforms and technologies, etc. h2>Example 1:
Command Syntax:
theHarvester -d [url] -l 300 -b [search engine name]

theHarvester -d matriux.com -l 300 -b google

In Above command:-

• -d [url] will be the remote site from which you wants to fetch the juicy information.
• -l will limit the search for specified number.
• -b is used to specify search engine name.

From above information of email address we can identify pattern of the email addresses assigned to the employees of the organization. For example, some companies uses firstname.lastname@domain.com pattern, so that can be useful in order to brute force the account of a specific person. Host information can be useful in order to scan the specific system.

Example 2:

Search from all search engine.

Command:

theHarvester -d gtu.ac.in -l 300 -b all

This command will grab the information from multiple search engines supported by the specific version of theHarvester.

Example 3:

Save the result in HTML file. Command:

theHarvester.py -d gtu.ac.in -l 300 -b all -f hackguru

To save results in html file -f parameter is used as shown in this example.

Conclusion

theHarvester is a handy tool, which would quickly fetch the juicy information from the public resources by active or passive means.

Suggestion

Exposure of personal information is an advantage for every social engineer guy. Every information that you post on the Internet will eventually stay forever. So before you post something personal think twice if it is really necessary to allow other people to know about yourself and your activities. Also using different email addresses and usernames will make the work of social engineers much more difficult.

How To Bypass Antivirus Detection – Making An Executable FUD

So in this tutorial we will show you step by step on how to make a virus Fully Undetectable from all the antiviruses. Their are lots of approaches, however here we will take a look at how to make an executable FUD using msfencode.

Requirements

• Metasploit (comes on BackTrack or Kali)

Attention

We are using some harmless test files but don’t infect people with any real viruses. That would be a crime.

Purpose

Antivirus protects machines from malware but not all of it .there are ways to pack malware to make it harder to detect. well use metasploit to render malware completely invisible to antivirus.

Creating a Listener

This is a simple payload that gives the attacker remote control of a machine. It is not a virus ant won’t spread, but it is detected by antivirus engines. In Backtrack in a Terminal windows execute these commands:

cd
msfpayload windows/shell_bind_tcp LPORT=2482 X > /root/listen.exe
ls -l listen.exe

How to Extract Email Address of Domain using Metasploit

Extracting Emails from Any Website using Metasploit


Here is a very easy tutorial on how to Extract email addresses from any site you want using metasploit. i'll not go in deep , em gona show it by step by step so then everyone can understand it easily.

start your Metasploit ...

1) First thing to do is open a msfconsole and type

Code:

search gather

2) now type

Code:

use gather/search_email_collector

How To Hack Windows 7 And Bypass Firewall And Kaspersky Antivirus .

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How To Hack Into Live Cameras Around The World .

How To Hack Into Live Cameras Around The World

This simple technique is called “Google Hacking”. We are just looking for unsecured. cameras around the world and writing a simple string on google hack into them.
Follow the steps below:
1) Choose any of these strings to enter on google

Top 5 Ways To Unblock Blocked Websites

Has your company blocked access to some of your favorite websites? Can’t use Facebook, gmail, YouTube or your favorite sites ? Want to know how to unblock them? Don't worry,  here is the solution. In this article, I am going to show you, how to bypass browsing restrictions in school, colleges or offices. There are many methods to bypass or unblocked the blocked websites. I am explaining top 5 methods to show you how to bypass the blocked websites. You can visit your favorite sites using some of the techniques outlined below... 1). Using Ultrasurf: It’s a well know proxy software. Using this, you can access various social networks like Facebook, YouTube,  MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Google Plus, etc, which are blocked most schools,colleges and offices. Some of the features of UltraSurf:

1. It can bypass major firewalls (like WatchGuard HTTP Proxy)
2. It will hide your real IP.
3. It is portable (Yep! You don’t need to install it) .
4. Encrypt your activities

How to Break Windows 7 Password (Easy Way).

Break Windows 7 Password

Start your computer and enter into Bios Setup. Change your boot preferences to boot from CD /DVD.

Insert your windows Bootable CD and select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner.

Then click on command prompt option.