Dmitry -e switch help

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06-25-2010, 07:05 PM
MoinFaraz

Dmitry -e switch help

While i am trying this tool to find possible emails on my own domain its coming up with no results

Code:

root@bt:/usr/local/bin# dmitry -e security-need.com Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool "There be some deep magic going on" HostIP:66.98.145.18 HostName:security-need.com Gathered E-Mail information for security-need.com --------------------------------- Searching Google.com:80... Searching Altavista.com:80... Found 0 E-Mail(s) for host security-need.com, Searched 0 pages containing 0 results All scans completed, exiting

& when i am trying this tool on gmail.com its coming up with only 28 results

Code:

root@bt:/usr/local/bin# dmitry -e gmail.com Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool "There be some deep magic going on" HostIP:72.14.254.83 HostName:gmail.com Gathered E-Mail information for gmail.com --------------------------------- Searching Google.com:80... catalin.hritcu@gmail.com offroad.commission@gmail.com chris.samuel@gmail.com adikurve@gmail.com madhav.gadgil@gmail.com umi.tanuki@gmail.com hockeymineur@gmail.com emialaddress@gmail.com isabelle.barriere@gmail.com tony.adamss20100@gmail.com mhowell@gmail.com andrewbadr@gmail.com mikelotfi@gmail.com keith.ansell@gmail.com commahpune@gmail.com PaulGTully@gmail.com philip.hrvatin@gmail.com rbtmgreen@gmail.com kvkirankumar319@gmail.com jeantoe@gmail.com dtsimon@gmail.com giraffeorders@gmail.com qualitydag@gmail.com BurkHufnagel@gmail.com nrginmotion@gmail.com 12dsanders@gmail.com nuttaphol.ma@gmail.com gvanberg@gmail.com Searching Altavista.com:80... Found 28 E-Mail(s) for host gmail.com, Searched 0 pages containing 0 results All scans completed, exiting

Now, my question is ::: why its not showing any single result for my domain & the second question is ::: why its only showing 28 results when searching gmail.com [we all know it should be much more]

Regards
06-26-2010, 03:27 AM
lupin

Re: Dmitry -e switch help

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.
06-26-2010, 02:23 PM
Archangel-Amael

Re: Dmitry -e switch help

Quote:

Originally Posted by lupin

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.

I agree with the above.
See also this guide on Dmitry I did a while back, to get a better idea of what's going on.
Archangel Amael's BT Tutorials: Using Dmitry in Backtrack
06-29-2010, 11:13 PM
MoinFaraz

Re: Dmitry -e switch help

Quote:

Originally Posted by lupin

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.

Ettercap shows that it establishes a connection with google & altavista
I think i am clear on this that it establishes a connection with search engine ^ search for possible email addresses, but my question was, in case of gmail.com why its coming with only a few results [i was wondering whether the developed put a limit on the no of possible email address, whether it can be increased or what]
06-30-2010, 06:21 AM
lupin

Re: Dmitry -e switch help

Quote:

Originally Posted by MoinFaraz

Ettercap shows that it establishes a connection with google & altavista
I think i am clear on this that it establishes a connection with search engine ^ search for possible email addresses, but my question was, in case of gmail.com why its coming with only a few results [i was wondering whether the developed put a limit on the no of possible email address, whether it can be increased or what]

How many search results does it get back (or request for that matter)? Therein lies the key ;)

Some search engines (like Google) do limit the number of searches that can come from an IP address, and scraping search results is technically against the Google AUP.

Its actually pretty straightforward to code up something yourself to gather email addresses in this way, and you can set the amount of results to gather yourself. I did it last year. If you use things like the Google search API and not scraping however, you are limited in the number of results you can make for a single search string....