Email Harvesting

Email Harvesting is the process of stealing e-mail addresses from the web and placing them into a text file. The purpose of harvesting email addresses is for use in bulk emailing, spamming and social engineering.There are many techniques to do that but I'm gonna show you one of the best and effective way.

Let's start it....


1. Open the terminal and start postgresql service.


root@kali:~# service postgresql start


2. Start metasploit framework.




3. Then enter the following command to display the various collector options: there are plenty, but we are gonna use email search collector. It will look like the figure below.

msf > search collector




4. Then use the auxiliary email collector.




5. Now type show options and it will display the options that are needed to exploit.




6. Set the DOMAIN that you prefer to harvest. you can set it like gmail.com, yahoo.com etc.




7. Then, if you like to write the output into a file, you can set OUTFILE with any filename you want.




8. Type the show options command again and confirm that if you are done by giving all the required fields.




9. Now we are free to go. just type the exploit command to begin it.




10. Here we go. Now we have done all the things and have to wait a little time.after it is finished, it will show the output directly in the terminal and it will write the output file as well. the file can be found in /home directory.




Thank You!

~CS