Maltego. Naroet all

Yesterday, looking at the next build of the live distribution of BackTrack, I came across a very interesting and rather, as it turned out later, useful software. Many of us often encountered the problem of finding information about a particular organization, namely specific data: starting with a general description of activities and ending with the personal phone numbers of employees. As a tool used by popular search engines (playing with the query language for a more efficient search), various public databases (phone database, whois, etc.).

I wanted to find something that could itself carry out a “smart”, highly specialized search, share (by criteria and type) and sort the information and, most importantly, indicate the relationships.
It is for these purposes that the tool called Maltego, the development of the South African company Paterva, was born.
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Maltego is a specialized intelligence software. It is designed to collect information from various databases, as well as to present it in an easy-to-understand format. It also allows you to identify the main links between pieces of information and establish previously unknown relationships between them.



Consider what exactly this software can:

1. Can dig up information and indicate relationships between
   
   • people (groups of people), their contacts (email, social accounts, phone numbers, addresses)
   • by companies
   • web sites
   • Internet infrastructure elements (domain names, DNS records, IP addresses, network blocks)
   • documents
   • phrases, inscriptions
2. This is all linked with the built-in AI.
3. Written in Java, which is very good in terms of portability
4. Convenient GUI, management of visualization of relationships
5. The system is organized in the form of a framework that allows you to fully adapt it to your needs.

But as they say: "It is better to see once than hear a hundred times."
Therefore, from the bottom posted a video review of the basic features of Maltego, namely, demonstrates the methods of social engineering.


Maltego homepage

PS For a long time I thought about which blog to post in, I stopped at the artificial intelligence. If you made a mistake - say