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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook A Step-by-Step Guide leveraging Custom Scripts and Integrated Tools in Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287907
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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 Hixon Hixon
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Discovery 4. Port Scanning 5. Fingerprinting 6. Vulnerability Scanning 7. Denial of Service 8. Working with Burp Suite 9. Web Application Scanning 10. Attacking the Browser with BeEF 11. Working with Sparta 12. Automating Kali Tools

Finding e-mail addresses using theHarvester


Using publicly available information, we can also gather information on individuals belonging to our target organization. This type of passive information gathering could become very valuable for social engineering or deploying an attack.

Getting ready

theHarvester comes preinstalled on Kali Linux. If you are using a different Linux/Unix distribution, it can be downloaded and installed from https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester.

How to do it…

theHarvester is an excellent tool for getting information on an organization from public sources. Using the tool, we can query Google, Bing, Twitter, and LinkedIn among other sources. 

  1. To see the help and options for theHarvester, simply open the Terminal and type the following command:
        theharvester
  1. In order to find e-mail addresses from google.com using the Google search engine, we'll use the following:
        theharvester -d google.com -l 500 -b google
  1. The command uses -d as the domain we want to search...
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