After obtaining employee names, the immediate next step for a phishing campaign is often to discover their email addresses. Hunter.io is a service that helps find and verify email addresses for people at a domain (pattern discovery + verification). Using Hunter.io (or similar tools) lets the tester build an accurate recipient list before crafting phishing content or campaigns.
Why not the others as the first step:
A (Wayback Machine): Useful for finding historical content or pages but not directly for harvesting current email addresses.
C (SpiderFoot): Powerful OSINT aggregation tool, could be used but is heavier and often used after initial enumeration.
D (Social Engineering Toolkit): Used to craft/send phishing payloads once targets (email addresses) are gathered — not the first data-gathering tool.
PT0-003 mapping: Domain 2/3 — OSINT and social-engineering reconnaissance.
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