Using the top OSINT tools

In this section, I will demonstrate some of the most popular OSINT tools that are available for Kali Linux. Each tool will help us create a profile about a target using various sources of information that can be found on the internet.

Over the next few sub-sections, we will cover the following OSINT tools:

• Maltego
• Recon-ng
• theHarvester
• Shodan
• OSRFramework

Now, let's take a deeper dive into each of these amazing tools.

Maltego

Maltego was created by Paterva (www.paterva.com) as a graphical interactive data mining application with the ability to query and gather information from various sources on the internet and present data in easy-to-read graphs. The graphs demonstrate the relationship between...