# Buster | Advanced Tool For Email Reconnaissance, Find Email & Get Detailed Information **URL:** \ **Category:** Tools & Scripts\ **Tags:** tools, piracy, ai\ **Created:** [May 19, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/buster-advanced-tool-for-email-reconnaissance-find-email-get-detailed-information/87377 "2020-05-19T12:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BlueHacker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/bluehacker/32/174721_2.png) [@BlueHacker](https://onehack.st/u/BlueHacker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/buster-advanced-tool-for-email-reconnaissance-find-email-get-detailed-information/87377/1 "2020-05-19T12:37:10Z")
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sham00n/buster/master/buster-demo.gif) To find person in digital data email in one of part to get detailed informations about that person, if you get email you can check info associated with that like social media accounts, domain registered with that email and many more. Buster is an advance email OSINT tool, this tool can extract email to find what informations associated with that email, you can reconnaissance an email and this tool will show info about that and also show link where the email was found. ## Description Buster is an advanced OSINT tool used to: - Get social accounts from various sources(gravatar,[about.me](http://about.me),myspace,skype,github,linkedin,previous breaches) - Get links to where the email was found using google,twitter,darksearch and paste sites - Get breaches of an email - Get domains registered with an email (reverse whois) - Generate possible emails and usernames of a person - Find the email of a social media account - Find emails from a username - Find the work email of a person using A tutorial on how to use Buster can be found [here](https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/forum/perform-email-reconnaissance-with-buster-0202180/) ## Installation clone the repository: git clone git://github.com/sham00n/buster Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with: cd buster/ python3 setup.py install buster -h ## API keys This project uses [hunter.io](http://hunter.io) to get information from company emails,the first couple “company email” searches dont require a key,if you have an interest in company emails i recommend that you sign up for an account on [hunter.io](http://hunter.io). Once you get an API key, add it to the file “api-keys.yaml” and rerun the command: python setup.py install ```auto usage: buster [-h] [-e EMAIL] [-f FIRST] [-m MIDDLE] [-l LAST] [-b BIRTHDATE] ``` ```auto [-a ADDINFO [ADDINFO ...]] [-u USERNAME] [-c COMPANY] ``` ```auto [-p PROVIDERS [PROVIDERS ...]] [-o OUTPUT] [-v] [--list LIST] ``` ```auto ``` ```auto Buster is an OSINT tool used to generate and verify emails and return ``` ```auto information associated with them ``` ```auto ``` ```auto optional arguments: ``` ```auto -h, --help show this help message and exit ``` ```auto -e EMAIL, --email EMAIL ``` ```auto email adress or email pattern ``` ```auto -f FIRST, --first FIRST ``` ```auto first name ``` ```auto -m MIDDLE, --middle MIDDLE ``` ```auto middle name ``` ```auto -l LAST, --last LAST last name ``` ```auto -b BIRTHDATE, --birthdate BIRTHDATE ``` ```auto birthdate in ddmmyyyy format,type * if you dont ``` ```auto know(ex: ****1967,3104**** ) ``` ```auto -a ADDINFO [ADDINFO ...], --addinfo ADDINFO [ADDINFO ...] ``` ```auto additional info to help guessing the ``` ```auto email(ex:king,345981) ``` ```auto -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME ``` ```auto checks 100+ email providers for the availability of ``` ```auto username@provider.com ``` ```auto -c COMPANY, --company COMPANY ``` ```auto company domain ``` ```auto -p PROVIDERS [PROVIDERS ...], --providers PROVIDERS [PROVIDERS ...] ``` ```auto email provider domains ``` ```auto -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT ``` ```auto output to a file ``` ```auto -v, --validate check which emails are valid and returns information ``` ```auto of each one ``` ```auto --list LIST file containing list of emails ``` ## Usage examples **Get info of a single email(exists or not,social media where email was used,data breaches,pastes and links to where it was found)** buster -e [target@example.com](mailto:target@example.com) **Query for list of emails`** buster –list emails.txt **Generate emails that matches the pattern and checks if they exist or not(use the -a argument if you have more info to add(ex: -a nickname fav\_color phone #)** buster -e j\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*9@g\*\*\*\*.com -f john -l doe -b \*\*\*\*1989 **Generate usernames (use with -o option and input the file to recon-ng’s profiler module)** buster -f john -m james -l doe -b 13071989 **Generate emails (use -v if you want to validate and get info of each email)** buster -f john -m james -l doe -b 13071989 -p [gmail.com](http://gmail.com) [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) **Generate 100+ emails in the format** [**username@provider.com**](mailto:username@provider.com)**and returns the valid ones(use -p if you dont want all 100+)** buster -u johndoe **Generate a company email and returns info associated with it** ```auto buster -f john -l doe -c company.com ``` ![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/d/f/dfb450d115a44dfc54717796aacb4aebc11ef247.jpeg) ## Tips - You get 200 email validations/day,use them wisely! - When using the -a option,avoid using small words(ex:j,3,66),the shorter the words are the bigger the email list is and therefore more validations are needed - when adding an email pattern make sure the service providing the pattern displays it with the right size(facebook,twitter,instagram do…others might not) - I dont recommend using with Tor as [haveibeenpwnd.com](http://haveibeenpwnd.com),[hunter.io](http://hunter.io) and google wont function properly ## Thanks - [emailrep.io](https://emailrep.io/) for being developer friendly - khast3x,developer of [h8mail](https://github.com/khast3x/h8mail) which was used as a reference for this README file - The OSINT community for being awesome! ## GitHub: > **[GitHub - sham00n/buster: An advanced tool for email reconnaissance](https://github.com/sham00n/buster)** > > An advanced tool for email reconnaissance ---
**Author:** ![Techtanic](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/techtanic/32/92090_2.png) [@Techtanic](https://onehack.st/u/Techtanic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/buster-advanced-tool-for-email-reconnaissance-find-email-get-detailed-information/87377/2 "2020-05-19T13:43:54Z")
does this work on windows