OSINT Investigator Kit
Beginner · 10 tools
Open source intelligence gathering tools for investigating people, organizations, and digital assets. This kit covers identity research across social platforms, email and phone number reconnaissance, and website infrastructure analysis. Suitable for journalism, due diligence, fraud investigation, and missing persons cases.
Identity Research
Enumerate a target's presence across hundreds of social media platforms and online services. Sherlock and Maigret check username availability to map digital footprints, GHunt extracts information from Google accounts, and Holehe identifies which services an email address is registered on without alerting the target.
Email & Phone
Harvest email addresses, phone numbers, and associated metadata from public sources. theHarvester aggregates results from search engines, DNS, and certificate transparency logs. PhoneInfoga performs OSINT gathering on phone numbers, and SpiderFoot automates multi-source intelligence collection with a modular architecture.
Website Analysis
Analyze website infrastructure, detect impersonation domains, and extract metadata from files. Web-Check provides comprehensive site profiling including DNS, headers, and technology detection. DNSTwist generates and checks domain permutations to find typosquatting and phishing domains, while ExifTool extracts metadata from documents and images.
