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Long Fake Username has Many False Positives #2313

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joeyagreco opened this issue Oct 4, 2024 · 6 comments · Fixed by #2340
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Long Fake Username has Many False Positives #2313

joeyagreco opened this issue Oct 4, 2024 · 6 comments · Fixed by #2340
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@joeyagreco
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Installation method

Homebrew

Description

> sherlock foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[*] Checking username foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol on:

[+] Amino: https://aminoapps.com/u/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] Bikemap: https://www.bikemap.net/en/u/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol/routes/created/
[+] Discord: https://discord.com
[+] HackTheBox: https://forum.hackthebox.eu/profile/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] HudsonRock: https://cavalier.hudsonrock.com/api/json/v2/osint-tools/search-by-username?username=foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] Kick: https://kick.com/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/profile/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/@foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol
[+] Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/foobarbazquxsherlockfakeusernamethisisfakelol

[*] Search completed with 9 results

This shouldn't return anything.

This username is fake.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install sherlock
  2. Run with some fake username

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@joeyagreco joeyagreco added the bug Something isn't working label Oct 4, 2024
@alokranjan609
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I encountered the same bug when entering an invalid name. The links saved in the .txt file are all pointing to non-existent pages, resulting in a 404 status code.

@visheshdvivedi
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I would like to look into this bug. Please assign it to me.

@joeyagreco
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These will likely each need their own investigation.

Sites that no longer have a valid detection method without logging in would be explained here and those that do would need some tweaks to the URL

@alokranjan609
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@joeyagreco Is the list of sites giving false positive for long fake username are same or each time they return some different value.

@joeyagreco
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@alokranjan609 For me it's always the same list of sites returning false positives. The list that is mentioned in the original post.

@visheshdvivedi
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These will likely each need their own investigation.

Sites that no longer have a valid detection method without logging in would be explained here and those that do would need some tweaks to the URL

We can then plan for investigation for each of the URL you mentioned in the issue. Maybe opening separate issues for them would be a good idea

@ppfeister ppfeister linked a pull request Nov 2, 2024 that will close this issue
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