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Now days Social media is getting very popular. Their are lots of social media sites around us, like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr, Medium etc. Userrecon is a grate tool to discover social media accounts by usernames. Everyone knows that information gathering is a very important in penetration testing, but information collected from one social media is not enough.

This is very helpful for a security researcher . We can collect many information of a human. We can generate a bigger password list. Userrecon can help to find a username across 75+ social media sites. This tool is very helpful in location tracking and footprinting.

Userrecon is a shell script, it is very easy to use. To use this tool we need to download/clone it from Github by applying following command :

git clone https://github.com/jaykali/userrecon

The screenshot of preceding command is following:

Then we go to the userrecon folder using cd command :

cd userrecon

and then we give the script executable permission by using following command:

chmod +x userrecon.sh

The screenshot is following:

Now we can run this this tool by applying following command:

./userrecon.sh

Then the tool userrecon will start, as the following screenshot:

Here userrecon asks for username of our target. We just need to type the username and press Enter, userrecon will start scanning, like following screenshot:

Userrecon scan over 75 social media website for a given username. After scanning userrecon will save a log in txt file we can check the social media accounts by using those discovered links. Isn't it easy and super cool ?

 

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