Week in OSINT #2018–36
Tools, data sets, loads of links and a transform in development!
Another standard little overview of some interesting links that I gathered during last week. Not a huge set of links, but just open some PDF’s shared in here if you only want links… There will be enough to go through!
- Satellite Imagery Resources
- OSINT Gathering Techniques
- Deep Web Resources 2018
- Saving Web Pages
- Google Dataset Search
- Darknet Osint Graph Explorer
- Quiztime
PDF: Satellite Imagery Resources
Last week a very nice PDF was shared by Stefanie Proto on Twitter. It is a PDF with loads of resources regarding satellite imagery. Whatever your job or reason, there is a resource for everyone out there!
Link: https://gijn.org/2018/06/19/new-on-gijn-resources-for-finding-and-using-satellite-imagery/
Tutorial: OSINT Gathering Techniques
In April 2017 Riyaz Walikar posted a blog about gathering intelligence via open sources, and now Bharath posted a second part that goes a bit deeper. Where the first post was aiming for the low hanging fruits like IP addresses, DNS records or the ‘robots.txt’, this blog goes a lot deeper.
In this blog you can find tips about searching the certificate transparency logs, a little intro of the Autonomous Systems and how to find net blocks there, and a little explanation about how to find the original IP address of a server behind a CloudFlare account. Curious about a more technical write-up? Enjoy this read!
Part 1: https://blog.appsecco.com/open-source-intelligence-gathering-101-d2861d4429e3
PDF: Deep Web Resources 2018
And again a shout out to Stefanie, for sharing another very interesting PDF with the world, but this time regarding the deep web. Well over 50 pages full of links that deal with research papers, articles, tutorials, reports and anything else that could be of interest. This PDF alone is worth a month of Week in OSINT’s!
Link: http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelibrary.net/DeepWeb.pdf
Tool: Saving Web Pages
Dutch Osint Guy shared a nifty little tool the other day. A little extension or plug-in for your browser that will enable you to save an entire web page into a single HTML file! Maybe not the best to use if you have to preserve evidence, but for gathering some information for anything that is less strict, this is perfect!
Search: Google Dataset Search
On Friday Mikko Hypponen sent out a tweet mentioning the new Google Dataset Search that went into public beta on September 5. Any data set that can be found on the internet which Google was able to add, can now be found via a single search page. Whether you are looking for medical data, historical weather or car sales, it can all be found in this new tool.
Tool: Darknet Osint Graph Explorer
First Pielco11 created DOT for Maltego,a transform that was assisting the researchers of the dark web. And now there is DOGE!
Even though it is still under development, do keep an eye out for this! Because DOGE will be a Graph Explorer front-end for data collected via DOT. That means even more clarity and insight into the darker parts of the internet!
Link to DOT: https://github.com/pielco11/DOT
Link to DOGE: https://github.com/pielco11/DOGE
News: Quiztime
In Chemnitz Germany there is a lot going on since a few weeks. After it became known that migrants were the suspects in a killing, the extremism is showing their bad side again. The topic itself isn’t nice, but it is good to see that all the verification and fact checking practice that the Quiztime community offers on Twitter, is showing results. A little German thread about one of the many incidents in Chemnitz where some Quiztime regulars help to find the facts in between all the “fake news”.
Link to thread (mostly German): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1037850602099953665.html
Link to Quiztime on Medium: https://medium.com/quiztime
And that was it again for this week… A bit of everything, to try and please as many people as possible.
Have a good week and have a good search
