HOWTO theharvester on Ubuntu Desktop 12 04 LTS

The objective of theharvester is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database.



This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the penetration test in order to understand the customer footprint on the Internet. It is also useful for anyone that wants to know what an attacker can see about their organization.



Step 1 :



sudo apt-get install subversion



sudo -sH

cd /opt

svn checkout http://theharvester.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ theharvester

cd /opt/theharvester



Step 2 :



To run it.



sudo -sH

cd /opt/theharvester

python theharvester.py -d microsoft.com -l 500 -b google



Thats all! See you.

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