OSINT Opensource Intelligence

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Social Media

Search anyone by pseudo on social network

WhatsMyName

Search anyone by username and select the social network

Usernames Search Tool

A tool that lets you track trends on platforms like Telegram, TikTok, VK, and more.

Open Measures

A tool that allows you to find out what was uploaded to Facebook on one specific date.

Who posted what?

A tool that allows you to check out the stats of a Reddit group or a user’s most commonly used words or active hours.

Redective

A site that allows you to find out what the top trending tags are on Twitter (now called X) for any time and any location around the world.

GetDayTrends

Helps you find out what social media platforms someone is using by entering a username. You can filter results and export URLs.

What’s My Name App

Allows you to search for Telegram channels by country, explore channels by category, and check channel and group ratings. Useful for researching specific niche topics on Telegram.

TG Stat

Search

Allows you to search for Telegram channels by country, explore channels by category, and check channel and group ratings. Useful for researching specific niche topics on Telegram.

Carnet AI

A method to search on Google for particular files like PDFs, documents or spreadsheets, even on a specific website.

Google Dorks

Allows you to upload an image to get more context, see where it’s been posted, or find other versions of it online.

Search by Image

Allows you to upload an image to get more context, see where it’s been posted, or find other versions of it online.

Google image reverse search

A mix of free and paid service that provides alternative images of a person’s face.

PimEyes

Offers a reverse face search engine across several platforms.

Search4Faces

Geographic

Allows you to see what an area looked like in the past using old Google Street View images.

Google Street View

A tool that makes calculating the time based on the angle of shadows easy.

Suncalc

A tool that allows you to find key infrastructure in one publicly available map. It is helpful for geolocation tasks.

Open Infrastructure Map

A tool that collects maps and events happening around the world every day. It is useful for tracking major global news events.

Live UA Map

A tool that allows you to query the open street map database to create your own map.

Overpass Turbo

A tool for flight tracking that allows you to see what’s flying overhead, including the aircraft model, where it’s coming from, and where it’s going.

Flight Radar 24

A tool that helps you estimate the maximum number of people that can fit in a given area.

MapChecking CrowdTool

A tool that allows you to find geotagged YouTube videos uploaded from a specific location.

YouTube GeoFind

A free downloadable program that allows you to view clear historical satellite imagery for anywhere in the world.

Google Earth Pro

A Chat GPT based app that suggests the location of an image after you upload it.

GeoGuesser

Allows you to view shadows cast by buildings anywhere in the world and simulates where those shadows will fall at any time. Useful for figuring out the location of photos and videos in dense urban areas.

ShadowMap

Data

A command line tool that reveals hidden data attached to an image.

Exif Tool

A tool that reveals camera model and date using exif data.

Pixel Keeper

An online exif or metadata viewer.

Jimpl

A service that allows you to view deleted websites and posts. You can search through screenshots made every day.

Wayback Machine

A tool that allows you to scrape data from Untappd – the platform where you can find out how much beer people are drinking in your area.

Untappd Scraper

Online EXIF data viewer

Free Uncover hidden metadata from your photos. Find when and where the picture was taken. Remove EXIF data from the image to protect your personal info. 

Track your OSINT investigations

Free Osintracker is an application for OSINT investigations dedicated to analysts.

Google Dorks

intitle:cybersecurity filetyoe:pdf

site:.com filetype:pdf

inurl:infos

The Harvester

The Harvester is a simple to use, yet powerful tool designed to be used during the reconnaissance stage of a red team assessment or penetration test.
It performs open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a domain’s external threat landscape.

The tool gathers names, emails, IPs, subdomains, and URLs by using multiple public resources.

https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester

https://www.kali.org/tools/theharvester/

Maltego

Maltego is a link analysis software used for open-source intelligence, forensics and other investigations, originally developed by Paterva from Pretoria, South Africa.

Maltego offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable.

In 2019, the team of Maltego Technologies headquartered in Munich, Germany took over responsibility for all global customer-facing operations, and in 2023 complete technology development and management.

https://www.maltego.com/

 

Free for non-commercial or $1.000

Recon -NG

 

Recon in Metasploit [Python code]

Information gathering or reconnaissance (recon) is the most crucial and time-consuming phase in the penetration testing cycle.

Search DNS Zone.

By default on Kali Linux.

Metagoofil

Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,docx,pptx,xlsx) belonging to a target company.

Metagoofil will perform a search in Google to identify and download the documents to local disk.

https://www.kali.org/tools/metagoofil/

 

Tineye

Search by image solutions for you

TinEye’s computer vision, image recognition and reverse image search products power applications that make your images searchable.

https://tineye.com/https://tineye.com/

Plugin for: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari

Spiderfoot

SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence (OSINT) automation tool. It integrates with just about every data source available and utilises a range of methods for data analysis, making that data easy to navigate.

SpiderFoot has an embedded web-server for providing a clean and intuitive web-based interface but can also be used completely via the command-line. It’s written in Python 3 and MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot

Searchcode

Searchcode is a free source code search engine.

Code snippets and open source (free software) repositories are indexed and searchable.

https://searchcode.com/

Wayback Machine

You can use the Wayback Machine in any web browser to view old versions of websites.

Although not all websites are archived by the Wayback Machine, it’s the most reliable way to see old versions of websites dating back to 1996!

https://archive.org/web/

Sherlock Project

Sherlock, a powerful command line tool provided by Sherlock Project, can be used to find usernames across many social networks.

It requires Python 3.6

https://sherlock-project.github.io/

Tools for searchoing email, phone, address

';--have i been pwned?

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Epieos, the ultimate OSINT tool

An OSINT search engine that allows you to perform reverse email search, find related google reviews, use Holehe online, and many other things.

Search email or phone.

https://epieos.com/

Castrick - Find clues about anyone

An OSINT platform to discover valuable insights about anyone through reverse email, username, and phone number lookups, leaving no trace behind.

https://castrickclues.com/

Can find a photo and a gravatar used with the email address.

Now use a reverse image search.

SignalHire

SignalHire – find email or phone number
SignalHire Extension is a great way to find email and phone numbers in a couple of clicks. Free extension for your needs. Available in Chrome and Firefox.
See if email is on LinkedIn.

https://www.signalhire.com/extension