Every day I write about #osint (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques. Also little bit about forensics and cybersecurity in general. Work in https://t.me/netlas
Sea Floor #OSINT
maps.lof.org/lof - World Reef Map (with video)
ncei.noaa.gov/maps/iho_dcdb/ - Bathymetric Data Viewer (worldwide map)
portal.gplates.org/cesium/?view=seabed - Seabed Lithology Map
livingatlas.arcgis.com/emu/ - Ecological Marine Unit Explorer
PhishingSecLists
Github repo with wordlists for #phishing domains investigations:
Wizard.txt - common filenames/directories where they might be saving credentials
Shells.txt - popular shell file names
https://github.com/spmedia/PhishingSecLists/
Contributor twitter.com/Edmond_Major
We wrote an article about this video. Enjoy!
#homealone #crimewall #sociallinks
Bellingcat Globetrotters Writeups
Detailed descriptions of Bellingcat challenges (challenge.bellingcat.com) solutions from twitter.com/shibasec:
#1 — A Sticky Situation
#2 — Flamin-Go Find It!
#3 — Pulling Focus
#4 — The Rider's View
#5 — Lost in the Fog
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#geoint
List of online newspaper archives
Huge (incredibly huge) list of links to online newspaper archives by country and region + world archives. You can find information about different people and events from the 17th century to the present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
#osint
Shodan Spider
Very simple #bash tool that automate Shodan search and save results to txt files.
NOT login or API key required!
https://github.com/shubhamrooter/ShodanSpider
Creator twitter.com/shubhamtiwari_r
Robofinder
A tool to analyze the history of robots.txt. It analyzes all versions of the file from the wayback machine and displays a list of all found directories.
https://github.com/Spix0r/robofinder
Creator twitter.com/Sp1x0r
#osint
New detailed article from twitter.com/ervin_zubic:
"ICS 206–01: The New Standard Every OSINT Professional Must Know"
- What is an Intelligence Community Standard?
- What Does ICS 206–01 Cover?
- Checklist for Analysts: Ensuring Compliance with ICS 206–01
https://medium.com/osint-ambition/ics-206-01-the-new-standard-every-osint-professional-must-know-0bbaaa698846
Find That Spot
A tool that allows to search the map for objects that match a text description.
Based on OverPass Turbo, but does not require knowledge of query language, works faster and with large areas.
findthatspot.io
#osint #geoint
Domain Digger
Free and simple domain info gathering tool:
- subdomains (with first seen dates)
- dns map
- whois
- certificates
and more.
digger.tools
Creator twitter.com/wotschofsky
#osint
Bellingcat Challenges
A small selection of сhallenges (with the ability to check answers) to test #osint skills.
https://challenge.bellingcat.com/
IntellGPT
"ChatGPT agent that's set to help in intelligence analysis with data science approaches and #OSINT"(c)
Damn good in photo geolocation.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-NpDwkL41O-intellgpt-osint-data-science/
#chatgpt #ai
Google Switch for Google Lens
When searching for a location by photo:
1. First identify the country using AI (Geospy, Picarta etc)
2. Search for a picture in Google Lens with the settings of that country and neighboring countries with this extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/googleswitch/gleogimfdeaapagejhfmlgkgenfiaoha
Creator /channel/blackvisionary
HAWKER
Free #python tool for gathering information about full names, emails, phones, numbers, bitcoin addresses and IPs.
https://github.com/RetrO-M/Hawker
#osint #socmint
Digital Footprint OSINT Tool
Nickname information gathering:
- Checking domain registrations
- Checking social media presence
- Found potential(!) email addresses
- Found potential(!) phone numbers
Creator twitter.com/hamedesam_dev
#osint #socmint
If you've read my article:
8 basic methods of automating the collection of information from company websites
https://publication.osintambition.org/8-basic-methods-of-automating-the-collection-of-information-from-company-websites-9757f3cd1e06
You don't want to miss its continuation:
How to use GoBuster for OSINT?
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When searching by full name or username, don't forget about PDF document libraries.
For example, scribd.com has 195 million diverse files (sometimes even contact lists), slideshare.net - 28M+ files. And direct search on it works better than filetype:pdf
ArchiveGrid
- Worldwide map of 1400+ archives (libraries, universities, museums etc) with contact info
- Search by 7M+ archival materials records
https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/
#osint
One of the most important problems with nickname/email enumeration is the different spellings of one nickname (like j0hn and jOhn).
Psudohash (created for generating password lists) will help automate the enumeration of nickname variants
https://github.com/t3l3machus/psudohash
By twitter.com/t3l3machus
FLINFO
A partially free tool to monitor, search and quickly analyze news from many different sources in Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, French, Persian, Vietnamese (the tool automatically translates them into English)
flinfo.com
Tip by twitter.com/SchiphorstSkip
#factchecking
How to use robots.txt for #OSINT
(article by twitter.com/Altio10076080)
- What is a robots.txt
File
- Importance of robots.txt
for OSINT & Cybersecurity Professionals
- How to find a Robot.txt file on a website
- How to Find Hidden Information in robots.txt
https://osintteam.blog/robots-txt-a-file-we-all-better-know-a-bit-about-218794b6c1c7
ChannelGPT
Selfhosted #python a tool that converts the latest YouTube channel videos into text, creates a knowledge base from it, and allows to access it with an AI chatbot.
https://github.com/a2ashraf/ChannelGPT/
Creator twitter.com/a2ashraf
(OpenAI API/YouTube API keys required, pic - demo video)
🎉 Maigret finally has a web interface mode!
What feature should we implement next? 👇🤔
A huge shoutout to the amazing community for supporting Maigret's development, suggesting improvements, and even adding new features. 🙌
👉 Instructions on Read the Docs
Special thanks to overcuriousity for creating the web interface! ❤️
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In my opinion, there aren't many developers in the industry willing to dedicate their time and effort to improving open-source OSINT tools. Massive respect for all of you - your work is invaluable! 💪✨
P.S. The screenshot shows a graph of data from Luigi Mangione’s accounts - check out this post with a full investigation graph.
#maigret #github #investigation
UAP Disclosure GPT
AI chatbot built with a knowledge base of 11 high quality datasets/ reports/PDFs regarding #UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena), #UFO (unidentified flying object) and #NHI (Non-human intelligence).
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Yfj4suiG1-uap-disclosure-gpt
Creator twitter.com/UAPOSINT
#osint #gpt
CreepyCrawler
An easy to use #python tool that extracts various useful investigative data from a web site or URL:
Emails
Social media links
Subdomains
Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud storage links
Files
and more.
https://github.com/chm0dx/creepyCrawler
Creator twitter.com/chm0dx
#osint
OSINT Tools Armenia
Open Data portals
Legal Entities
Maps
Vehicles
People
Public procurement
https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Armenia
Contributor @pavelbannikov
#osint #geoint
vaderSentiment
A very easy to use #Python library that allows you to analyze the sentiment of different text fragments.
https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment
Creator twitter.com/cjhutto
#osint #socmint
internect.info
View BlueSky account registration date, profile names history and some other additional info.
#osint #socmint
Open Library
A tool to search for free books in the Internet Archive.
Search by title, author, subject, place, publisher and full text.
openlibrary.org
#webarchive
OSINT Tools Israel🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Open Data portals
Legal Entities
Cadastral Maps
Vehicles
People, phones, social etc.
Public procurements
WHOIS
https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Israel
Contributor @pavelbannikov
#osint