Maltego

Description

Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application, enabling to easily gather information about DNS, domains, IP addresses, websites, persons, etc. The information is rendered on a graph, showing the relationships between objects. This is the perfect tool for social engineering.

Installation

# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget http://www.paterva.com/malv2/MaltegoInstaller-v202-CE.jar
# java -jar MaltegoInstaller-v202-CE.jar

Then follow the steps of the installation ("Next>Next>Finish" Windows-like installation)

Usage

Launch Maltego

If you have accepted default options, Matego should have added a shortcut in the menu.

Looking for a person

Domain information

Maltego is able to retrieve relevant information about domains, as you can see on the following picture.

Looking for documents

Considering a domain as entry point, it is possible to look for documents and try to gather meta description. As you can see on the picture, it is possible to gather information about the author, the company, and even a login.

Remarque A previous search on email address has enabled to discover a mail address.