What is Maltego?

Maltego is a powerful open source intelligence (OSINT) and graphical link analysis tool developed by Paterva. It is used by security researchers, forensics investigators, and intelligence analysts to gather information, connect the dots, and identify key relationships between pieces of data.

The software provides the ability to quickly mine a wide variety of open data sources, social media platforms and dark web sites to gather intelligence and identify patterns. The information is visually displayed on a graph, allowing link analysis between entities like people, groups, websites, domains, locations and more.

Some of the key features and capabilities of Maltego include:

• Data mining from open sources, forums, code repositories, dark web sites and more
• Powerful graph link analysis to spot connections, associations and relationships between data points
• Transforms to automate the process of querying around a piece of information to map out a network
• Case management features to organize research for specific investigations
• Code generation to create plugins and extend Maltego's capabilities
• Integrates with online search tools like Shodan, Clearbit, ThreatCrowd and more

The unique graphical link analysis approach used by Maltego allows investigators and analysts to leverage the tool for a wide range of use cases like cyber threat intelligence, detecting online predators, analyzing malware infrastructure, fraud investigations, mapping out networks and uncovering insider threats.

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