What is the primary function of theHarvester when conducting open-source intelligence during a penetration test?
Decrypting password hashes retrieved from compromised systems or data breaches.
Conducting automated penetration testing and vulnerability scanning of networked systems.
Gathering publicly accessible information such as email addresses, domain names, and hostnames from various sources like search engines and social media.
Assessing the security of wireless networks by capturing and analyzing wireless traffic.
The correct answer highlights theHarvester's primary function as an OSINT tool, which is to gather publicly accessible information such as email addresses, domain names, and hostnames from search engine results, as well as other public sources such as social media and websites. This functions as part of the reconnaissance phase to collect data that could be used to identify potential attack vectors. The incorrect answers do not describe the primary function of theHarvester.
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