Hunting for the Usernames on Social Media Sites

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A Tool that helps to find the user accounts on different social media platforms. The SherLock Tool helps us to gather over 300 different social media platforms. This can be very for a bad guy to gain some sensitive information about a particular target. This information can be useful for Social Engineering. Tricking the user to change their credentials or literally brute-forcing into their user accounts. It is a free open-source tool for finding and gathering usernames on multiple social media platforms.

How to Install the Sherlock Tool?

$ git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git

$ cd sherlock/

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ cd sherlock/

For finding the help manual of the Sherlock tool. Simply type

$ python3 sherlock.py -h

And once installed we can enumerate the usernames by typing the following command.

$ python3 ./sherlock.py cyb3tarun


It creates a txt file of the result of the total websites that the username was detected on. You can see the result text file by doing

$ cat cyb3tarun.txt

So, this is how you can enumerate the usernames on the different social media platforms you can also make your search anonymous by using the parameter "-t"  which is tor socket connection your IP address remains undetected for finding those usernames.

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