Top 10 OSINT Tools to Learn | The Top10 Series

"The Top10 Series" where we will be sharing all the top resources for learning OSINT which are easily accessible on Internet.

In today’s post, we will be learning about top 10 OSINT tools you must learn as a beginner in OSINT. If you haven’t read our last post on Top OSINT books, go and read now.

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1. Maltego - a data mining and link analysis tool
   Why you should learn - It’s help in automating simple tasks for gathering and analyzing information. A great tool for automation and it’s transforms make it a perfect tool when you are doing OSINT at a scale. Community edition of the tool is free, so just learn and use that as a beginner.

2. Recon-ng - a full-featured reconnaissance framework

   Why you should learn - It’s a great tool for automating the web-based recon. It helps in gathering information about a website via automation saving your time, so you can focus on other tasks.

3. Spiderfoot - an OSINT automation tool

   Why you should learn - It gathers information from a lot of source and then perform analysis on that. It’s available in command line and in web-based interface.

4. Sherlock - a username checker

   Why you should learn - It’s the most widely used username checker. It has big list of sites where it checks if that username exists or not. It helps in finding possible social media accounts of the target.

5. Maigret - a username enumeration tool
   Why you should learn - It firstly check if the given username exists and thousands of sites from its database and if exists, it automatically collects useful information from there.

6. Torbot - a Darkweb OSINT tool
   Why you should learn - It helps you in performing OSINT on darkweb. It has a lot of features which simplifies your work, like it’s onion crawler, crawling custom domains, saving all data in html or json.

7. Mosint - an automated email OSINT tool
   Why you should learn - It helps in gathering information about target email. It automates the task of checking the email in leaked database, finding related emails and domains, etc.

8. H8mail - another email OSINT tool
   Why you should learn - It’s specifically designed for breach hunting, so it supports more website as compared to Mosint.

9. Web-check - All-in-one web osint tool
   Why you should learn - It simplifies the work of gathering information about a website. It gathers information from a lot of sources and presents it in a simple layout. You can use it directly by going to the below website.
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10. Social-Analyzer - another username enumeration tool
    Why you should learn - It’s available in API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +1000 social media \ websites. It includes different analysis and detection modules, and you can choose which modules to use during the investigation process.
    

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