In a previous section, I showed you how you can gather information about a username by using What's
My Name and Blackbird.
Now there is a tool called Sherlock that you can install it on your Linux machine that will check whether
a username has been used on hundreds of websites.
Now some search results are false positive, which means that you might get a link, but once you open
it you will not find any account.
And installing this tool is very simple.
All you have to do is to type apt install and then Sherlock.
So you want to go to your Trace Labs Linux machine, and then you want to open the terminal as root
by clicking on this icon.
And then I'm going to type Osint as my password.
And before I install any tool I always have to run the command apt update to update Kali Linux repositories.
And after this I'm going to install the tool by typing apt install and then Sherlock, and then hit
enter.
And now the tool has been installed.
And then I'm going to move to my desktop by typing CD home, Osint desktop like this.
And now I'm in desktop, and now I'm going to run the tool by typing Sherlock, and then the username
that I would like to search for, for example Rishi Kabra 132I can add additional username, for example
underscore rk 132.
And I would like to print only found results by typing print found.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
And now it's going to search for this username across hundreds of websites.
And once the search is done a txt file will be generated on my desktop.
So here are the accounts that has been found for Rishi Kabra 132 we can see that we have a.
TXT file on our desktop.
We can open it and see all the found accounts.
Now I already know that Rishi Cobra has a Hackerrank account, a Gravatar account and a GitHub account.
But Rishi Cobra does not have an account on this website or on this website.
And this is why I told you that some search results are false positives.
So if I copied the first link and visit it, I can see that there is no search results.
So I can't see Rishi Cobra account.
So I'm going to close this file.
And now it's checking to see if this username has been registered on any website.
And this is why I always recommend using more than one tool, because as you can see, it wasn't able
to find Rishi Cobra Twitter account.
It only found accounts that Rishi Cobra does not have.
And here is the second txt file.
You can obviously upload these txt files to your usernames.
Note that we have created before, just so that you can have all the information in one place.