Crosslinked – LinkedIn Enumeration Tool in Kali Linux

Crosslinked is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. Crosslinked is used for gathering information about people. Crosslinked is a LinkedIn enumeration tool that uses search engine scraping to collect valid employee names from a target organization that has been targeted by a user. Crosslinked is one of the easiest and useful tools for performing reconnaissance on LinkedIn. The Crosslinked tool is also available for Linux. This tool used a technique called performing enumerating using search engine scraping to collect employee data from LinkedIn. This technique provides exact and accurate results without the use of any external API keys and modules.

Features and uses of Crosslinked  :

• Crosslinked is a complete package of information gathering modules.
• Crosslinked works and acts as a LinkedIn scanner.
• Crosslinked is one of the easiest and useful tools for performing reconnaissance on LinkedIn accounts.
• Crosslinked is written in python.

Installation 

Step 1: Open your kali Linux operating system and install the tool using the following command.

git clone https://github.com/m8r0wn/crosslinked
cd crosslinked/

Step 2: Use the following command to install all the requirements of the tool.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Step 3: The tool has been downloaded. Now use the following command to run the tool.

python3 crosslinked.py -h

 Now the tool is running successfully. Now we will see examples of using the tool.

Example 1: Use the Crosslinked tool to find employees of a company.

python3 crosslinked.py -f ‘{first}.{last}@gmail.com’ geeksforgeeks

All the emails had been added to names.txt. Now use the following command to open the names.txt file.

cat names.txt

Example 2:

 Use the Crosslinked tool to find employees of a company.

python3 crosslinked.py -f ‘{first}.{last}@gmail.com’ amazon

You can see all the email addresses here of the employees. Similarly, you can perform experiments on your target also. LinkedIn enumeration tool that uses search engine scraping to collect valid employee names from a target organization that has been targeted by a user. Crosslinked is one of the easiest and useful tools for performing reconnaissance on LinkedIn.