Investigating Koo-App
Hello all, Its been a while since my last post and in this post I will discuss some methods that you can use to find information from Kooapp.
So what is this Koo App?
Koo App is an Indian microblogging and social networking service which is similar Twitter which was launched recently.
Features are all similar to twitter but not much optimized yet. We can access Koo App through www.kooapp.com , App is available at Playstore and Appstore.
My initial experience says that this could easily become a target for spreading disinformation, fake news etc like other social network and it will be crucial for an investigator or fact-checker to investigate this and I hope this post comes in handy.
In this post I will discuss some OSINT investigative methods using google dork to easily find information from kooapp. So lets get right into it
site:kooapp.com
To find all the urls within Koo App
site:kooapp.com/tag/<tag name>
Koo App has hashtag feature like twitter. If you want to check if a hashtag exist in Koo App then you can use this search method
Now if you try to open the link directly then sometimes it won’t open, so what you have to do is to click on “translate this page” and open the link through google translate. The below image shows the result
site:kooapp.com/tag/*
To find dedicated links to all the post mentioning a certain hashtag.
Result :
You can also get posts related to the hashtag by clicking on the hashtags within Koo App
site:kooapp.com/profile “<any word mentioned in the profile>”
site:www.kooapp.com/koo “t.me”
To find Telegram channel link posted in Koo App
Result:
site:kooapp.com/koo “t.me/joinchat/”
To find Telegram invite link posted in Koo App
Result:
site:kooapp.com/koo “chat.whatsapp.com”
To find whatsapp group links posted in Koo App
Result:
site:kooapp.com/koo “facebook.com/groups”
Finding facebook group links posted in Koo App
Result:
site:kooapp.com/koo “…”
This you can use to find long posts and you will mostly find posts with some type of file attachment using this dork
Result:
site:kooapp.com/koo “https://”
To find post that mention any url
site:kooapp.com/koo “https://” & “bit.ly”
Finding posts with shortened urls
site:kooapp.com/koo “https://drive.google.com"
Finding posts with google drive link
site:kooapp.com/koo “https://” & “/file/”
Finding posts in Koo App with links to files
site:kooapp.com/koo “https://” & “.pdf”
To find posts with links to PDFs
Hope these methods are useful to you
For more post like this stay tuned
