Theharvester (Information Gathering Tool)

.So today i will be telling you all about Harvester. It is a information gathering tool and as we know getting information is the first step in hacking.An intelligent penetration tester use some intelligent tools and techniques to get the right information on a right time, for social engineering (human hacking) you need relevant information about a person.

What is The Harvester

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 servers. This tool is very easy to use and as hackers first step is information gathering so by this tool they can get quite good and efficient result. There are different information gathering tools like nmap,zenmap,maletgo,etc. We will discuss about them also in later tutorials.

Downloading And Installing The Harvester

So if you are using backtrack than you not need to download and install harvester because it is available on backtrack, whereas for other Linux distributions like ubuntu download and install it. However you can download and use Theharvester for other Operating system as it needs python to run.

Basic Usage Of The Harvester

  For opening it in backtrack,open terminal and type cd /pentest/enumeration/theharvester as shown in

 the image below For other distributions locate the directory.

 

 For obtaining information you can use simple command that is ./theHarvester.py -d targetsite.com -l 500 -b google.

 This will search the information of target site in google. It allows google,bing,linkedin,pgp search options.

 For showing better and good results i took google for example.so for searching google information we will use command ./theHarvester.py -d google.com -l 500 -b google.

So i got result something like in below image.

 

Connect To FTP Client

Posted By Maher Bro

Today I Am Going To Demonstrate You Connecting To FTP Client
Basically FTP Stands For File Transfer Protocol That's Used To Download And Upload Files Via Internet Via 21 Port And We Can Login Remotely With The Help Of Client Application Tool
Once You Have Logged In To Your FTP Server You Can Perform Various Tasks On Networking Like Renaming , Deleting , Uploading , Editing And Hosting Your Website Too
There Are Many Applications Software That's Used In It Like ALFTP And FileZilla Alike Many
So Let's Start It
1: Open Up Your Command Prompt
2: Type FTP {Internet Protocol ADDRESS And Website You Wanted To Connect Through}
3: Suppose You Wanted To Connect To ftp.4players.de
C:\>ftp
ftp> o
To ftp.4players.de
Connected to ftp-1.freenet.de.
220 ftp.4players.de FTP server ready.
User (ftp-1.freenet.de:(none)): anonymous
331 Password required.
Password:
230 Login completed.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command ok.
150 Opening data connection.
./crossdomain.xml
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 19 bytes received in 0.04Seconds 0.50Kbytes/sec.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command ok.
150 Opening data connection.
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          435 Aug 11  2010 crossdomain.xml
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root        24576 May 09 12:09 pub
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 132 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 66.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command ok.
150 Opening data connection.
./crossdomain.xml
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 19 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 6.33Kbytes/sec.
ftp> dir ./crossdomain.xml
200 PORT command ok.
150 Opening data connection.
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          435 Aug 11  2010 ./crossdomain.xml
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 74 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 18.50Kbytes/sec.
................................................................................................
Done 

Posted in: HACKING