How To Steal / Extract Email Addresses From The Web

How To Steal / Extract Email Addresses From The Web

How To Steal / Extract Email Addresses From The Web

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What is E-mail Stealing/harvesting?

E-mail 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 used for stealing email addresses, we will use the easiest and effective technique.We will use So let's start and make sure you are connected to the internet

So open your terminal and type the following command to start Metasploit services

root@seven:~# service postgresql start

Start MSF console:

root@seven:~# msfconsole

Now type the following command to show different gather search collector options there are plenty, but we are going to use email search collector.As shown in the below picture.

msf > search collector 

Use the auxiliary email collector by typing the following command:

msf > use auxiliary/gather/search_email_collector 

Now type show options and press enter. These are the configurations, Gmail now we have to set domain name and output file.

msf auxiliary(search_email_collector) > show options

Set domain name by typing following command and press enter.I settGmailou can write any domain like bing or yahoo etc. Remember DOMAIN should be in uppercase.

msf auxiliary(search_email_collector) > set DOMAIN gmail.com

Specify an output file this is where all the email addresses will be saved.Type the following command:

msf auxiliary(search_email_collector) > set OUTPUT yahoo.txt

Type show options again see your configurations as you can see domain has been set to yahoo.com and output will be saved to the yahoo.txt file.We are good to go.

msf auxiliary(search_email_collector) > show options

Now it's time to run attack simply type exploit and hit enter.It will take few seconds to collect emails be patient

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msf auxiliary(search_email_collector) > exploit

[*] Harvesting emails .....
[*] Searching Google for email addresses from yahoo.com

Once the process is complete, then we need to confirm that output file is created. The file will be saved to the home directory so open you terminal and type ls you should be able to see your file under the name yahoo.txt in the home directory.

Now open the file to check list type and enter.

root@zeeroseven:~# cat yahoo.txt

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