ellkinox/docker-ghunt repository overview

⁠Description

GHunt is an OSINT tool to extract information from any Google Account using an email.

It can currently extract:

• Owner's name
• Last time the profile was edited
• Google ID
• If the account is a Hangouts Bot
• Activated Google services (YouTube, Photos, Maps, News360, Hangouts, etc.)
• Possible YouTube channel
• Possible other usernames
• Google Maps reviews (M)
• Possible physical location (M)
• Events from Google Calendar (C)
• Public photos (P)
• Phones models (P)
• Phones firmwares (P)
• Installed softwares (P)

The features marked with a (P) require the target account to have the default setting of Allow the people you share content with to download your photos and videos on the Google AlbumArchive, or if the target has ever used Picasa linked to their Google account.
More info here⁠.

Those marked with a (M) require the Google Maps reviews of the target to be public (they are by default).

Those marked with a (C) requires user to have Google Calendar set on public (default it is closed)

⁠Screenshots

⁠📰 Latest news

• 02/10/2020 : Since a few days ago, Google returns a 404 when we try to access someone's Google Photos public albums, we can only access it if we have a link to one of their albums.
  Either this is a bug and this will be fixed, either it's a protection that we need to find how to bypass.
• 03/10/2020 : Successfully bypassed. 🕺 (commit 01dc016)
  It requires the "Profile photos" album to be public (it is by default)
• 20/10/2020 : Google WebArchive now returns a 404 even when coming from the "Profile photos" album, so the photos scraping is temporary (or permanently) disabled. (commit e762543)
• 25/11/2020 : Google now removes the name from the Google Maps profile if the user has 0 reviews (or contributions, even private). I did not find a bypass for the moment, so all the help in the research of a bypass is appreciated.

⁠Installation

⁠Docker

The Docker image is automatically built and pushed to Dockerhub after each push on this repo.
You can pull the Docker image with:

docker pull mxrch/ghunt

Then, any of the scripts can be invoked through:

docker run -v ghunt-resources:/usr/src/app/resources -ti mxrch/ghunt check_and_gen.py
docker run -v ghunt-resources:/usr/src/app/resources -ti mxrch/ghunt hunt.py <email_address>

⁠Manual installation

• Make sure you have Python 3.7+ installed. (I developed it with Python 3.8.1)
• Some Python modules are required which are contained in requirements.txt and will be installed below.

⁠1. Chromedriver & Google Chrome

This project uses Selenium and automatically downloads the correct driver for your Chrome version.
⚠️ So just make sure to have Google Chrome installed.

⁠2. Requirements

In the GHunt folder, run:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Adapt the command to your operating system if needed.

⁠Usage

For the first run and sometime after, you'll need to check the validity of your cookies.
To do this, run check_and_gen.py.
If you don't have cookies stored (ex: first launch), you will be asked for the 5 required cookies. If they are valid, it will generate the Authentication token and the Google Docs & Hangouts tokens.

Then, you can run the tool like this:

python hunt.py [email protected]

⚠️ I suggest you make an empty account just for this or use an account where you never login because depending on your browser/location, re-logging in into the Google Account used for the cookies can deauthorize them.

⁠Where I find these 5 cookies ?

1. Log in to accounts.google.com
2. After that, open the Dev Tools window and navigate to the Storage tab (Shift + F9 on Firefox) (It's called "Application" on Chrome)
   If you don't know how to open it, just right-click anywhere and click "Inspect Element".
3. Then you'll find every cookie you need, including the 5 ones.

⁠🛡️ Protecting yourself

Regarding the collection of metadata from your Google Photos account:

Given that Google shows "X require access" on your Google Account Dashboard⁠, you might imagine that you had to explicitly authorize another account in order for it to access your pictures; but this is not the case.
Any account can access your AlbumArchive (by default):

Here's how to check and fix the fact that you're vulnerable (which you most likely are):
Go to https://get.google.com/albumarchive/⁠ while logged in with your Google account. You will be automatically redirected to your correct albumarchive URL (https://get.google.com/albumarchive/YOUR-GOOGLE-ID-HERE). After that, click the three dots on the top left corner, and click on setting

Then, uncheck the only option there:

On another note, the target account will also be vulnerable if they have ever used Picasa linked to their Google account in any way, shape or form. For more details on this, read PinkDev1's comment on issue #10⁠.
For now, the only (known) solution to this is to delete the Picasa albums from your AlbumArchive.

⁠Thanks

This tool is based on Sector's research on Google IDs⁠ and completed by my own as well.
If I have the motivation to write a blog post about it, I'll add the link here !