HostHunter – Recon tool for discovering hostnames using OSINT techniques

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HostHunter

HostHunter v1.5

A tool to efficiently discover and extract hostnames providing a large set of target IP addresses. HostHunter utilises simple OSINT techniques to map IP addresses with virtual hostnames. It generates a CSV or TXT file containing the results of the reconnaissance.

Latest version of HostHunter also takes screenshots of the targets, it is currently a beta functionality.

Demo

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Click on the thumbnail above to view the demo.

Installation

  • Tested with Python 3.7.2.

Linux / Mac OS

  • Install python dependencies.
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

The next few steps are only required if you would like to use the Screen Capture feature.

  • Download and install the latest version of Google Chrome.

Mac OS:

$ brew cask install google-chrome

Linux:

$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

$ dpkg -i ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

$ sudo apt-get install -f
  • Download and install the latest ChromeDriver.

Mac OS:

wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/74.0.3729.6/chromedriver_mac64.zip && sudo unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/;

Linux:

wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/74.0.3729.6/chromedriver_linux64.zip && sudo unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/;

Simple Usage Example

$ python3 hosthunter.py <targets.txt>
$ cat vhosts.csv

More Examples

HostHunter Help Page

$ python3 hosthunter.py -h
usage: hosthunter.py [-h] [-b] [-f FORMAT] [-o OUTPUT] [-sc] [-t TARGET] [-V]

HostHunter Help Page

$ python3 hosthunter.py -h
 usage: hosthunter.py [-h] [-b] [-f FORMAT] [-o OUTPUT] [-sc] [-t TARGET] [-V]
                      [targets]
 |<--- HostHunter v1.5 - Help Page --->|
 positional arguments:
   targets               Sets the path of the target IPs file.
 optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -b, --bing            Use Bing.com search engine to discover more hostnames
                         associated with the target IP addresses.
   -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
                         Choose between CSV and TXT output file formats.
   -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                         Sets the path of the output file.
   -sc, --screen-capture
                         Capture a screen shot of any associated Web
                         Applications.
   -t TARGET, --target TARGET
                         Scan a Single IP.
   -V, --version         Displays the current version.

Run HostHunter with Bing and Screen Capture modules enabled

$ python3 hosthunter.py <targets.txt> --bing -sc -f csv -o hosts.csv

Display Results

$ cat hosts.csv

View Screenshots

$ open ./screen_captures/

Features

[X] Works with Python3
[X] Extracts information from SSL/TLS certificates.
[X] Supports Free HackerTarget API requests.
[X] Scraps Bing.com results.
[X] Takes Screenshots of the target applications.
[X] Validates the targets IPv4 address.
[X] Supports .txt and .csv output file formats
[X] Gathers information from HTTP headers. [X] Verifies Internet access. [X] Finds hostnames in 80/TCP, 443/TCP and 21/TCP ports.

Coming Next

[_] Support for Nessus target format.
[_] Improve output (IPs, HostNames, FQDNs)
[_] Pause and Resume Execution
[_] Support for a Premium HackerTarget API key
[_] Support for IPv6
[_] Gather information from additional APIs
[_] Actively pull SSL certificates from other TCP ports

Notes

  • Free APIs throttle the amount of requests per day per source IP address.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Authors

  • Andreas Georgiou – follow me on twitter – @superhedgy

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