Extracting e-mails to Maltego

There is another recipe in this book that illustrates how to extract e-mails from a website. This recipe will show you how to create a local Maltego transform, which you can then use within Maltego itself to generate information. It can be used in conjunction with URL spidering transforms to pull e-mails from entire websites.

How to do it…

The following code shows how to extract e-mails from a website through the use of regular expressions:

import urllib2
import re
import sys

tarurl = sys.argv[1]
url = urllib2.urlopen(tarurl).read()
regex = re.compile((“([a-z0-9!#$%&’*+\/=?^_`{|}~- ]+(?:\.[*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&’*+\/=?^_`” “{|}~- ]+)*(@|\sat\s)(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?(\.|” “\ sdot\s))+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)”))

print”<MaltegoMessage>”
print”<MaltegoTransformResponseMessage>”
print”  <Entities>”
emails = re.findall(regex, url)
for email in emails:
  print”    <Entity Type=\”maltego.EmailAddress\”>”...