Mr.Holmes – Information Gathering OSINT Tool

Mr.Holmes is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. Mr.Holmes is used for information gathering. Mr.Holmes is a tool that is used to perform reconnaissance on domains, usernames, and phone numbers. Mr.Holmes works on open-source technology. Mr.Holmes gathers all information that is open source and is easily available on the internet.  Mr.Holmes is written in python. You must have python installed in your kali Linux operating system in order to use this tool.  The user interface of  Mr.Holmes is very similar to metasploitable 1 and metasploitable 2 which makes it easy to use.  Mr.Holmes also uses proxy of tor to make your request and response cycle completely anonymous. The Whois modules are used for getting domain information.

Installation

Step 1:  Use the following command to install the tool from GitHub. Use the second command to move into the directory of the tool.

git clone https://github.com/Lucksi/Mr.Holmes
cd Mr.Holmes

Step 2: Now use the following command to give the permission of installation to the tool.

sudo chmod +x install.sh

Step 3: Now use the following command to run the tool.

python3 MrHolmes.py

The tool has been downloaded and running successfully. Now we will see examples to use the tool.

Usage

Example 1: Use Mr.Holmes tool to perform reconnaissance on a phone number.

choose 2 and type the phone number.

Example 2: Use Mr.Holmes tool to perform reconnaissance on a phone number.

choose3 and type the domain.