Welcome to OSINT Recap, your yearly recap of all info about OSINT events from your favorite OSINT newsletters.

Let’s continue the series with content posted by Cyb_detective.

All tool names contains links to their page.

OSINT Tools

1. Quick Cache and Archive Search - Search one URL in dozens of search archives and search engine caches.

2. Quick archive.org viewer - A simple online tool that will save you time looking at old versions of a page.

3. Google Maps Scraper - A free CLI based tool for scraping data from google maps such such as the name, address, phone number, website URL, rating, reviews number, latitude and longitude, reviews,email and more for each place.

4. Wayback Keword Search - This tool downloads each page from the Wayback Machine for a specific domain and enables further keyword search on each saved page.

5. Information Laundrant - It analyses the html code of a website and extracts 60+ indicators from it to help find other related sites.

6. Backup Files Finder - A template for the Nuclei vulnerability scanner that allows to search for backup files on a target site.

7. Lazyegg - A template for the Nuclei vulnerability scanner that allows to search for backup files on a target site.

8. urlDNA - Free online tool for gathering info about URL.

9. Get Whatsapp Profile Information - It extracts ID, description, email, website, location, etc about any Whatsapp number(works not only for business but also for personal accounts, no login required).

   
   

OSINT Tips

1. SOWEL (SOcmint Weaknesses Enumeration List) is an awesome project by Soxoj. This project will help you quickly understand how to use data from social platforms and related sources to solve your problem.

   
   

2. OSINT Rocks is free website that allows you to use popular tools like Ghunt, Sherlock, Maigret, Holehe, Ignorant, Hudson rock, lookup for Skype, Telegram, Whatsapp, and whois lookup.

   
   

OSINT Techniques

1. When gathering information about a website, don't forget that Google indexes logs. With ‘filetype:log site:yourtarget’ or ‘filetype:log intext:targetrelatedkeyword’ you can find useful technical information for investigation. Tip by @AlHomaidNoor

2. @BanPangar shared a method for finding emails/nicknames mentions in the text of web pages/docs with archive.org collection search. Help find a lot of things that don't show up in Google results. Don't forget the quotes.

OSINT Resources

1. Read these awesome ebooks by Cyb_detective for getting familar with OSINT and Linux.
   Linux for OSINT(21days course for beginners (Download the pdf version)
   Python for OSINT(21days course for beginners (Download the pdf version)

   
   

2. Read this awesome OSINT Articles -
   2 ways to find the full email of a place on Google Maps
   A 1-minute way to geolocate road signs that show the distance to the nearest cities
   How to geolocate public transport photo using OverPass Turbo and AI
   GeoSpy + OpenStreetMap search = super power
   3 main techniques for automating document search and analysis on a company’s website

3. OSINT Tools to identify location from photo using AI -
   GeoSpy (Freemium)
   UserSearch (Paid)
   Picarta (Freemium)
   Geolocation Estimation by TIB (Free)
   MC-LLaVA 3B HuggingSpace Model (Free)
   EarthKit

4. Cyber Detective’s OSINT cheat sheets - High quality and text versions cheat sheets from Cyber Detective Twitter.

5. OSINT Tools for searching People’s contact details -
   Epieos (Freemium)
   OSINT Industires (Paid)
   Castrick
   PredictaSearch
   X-Ray
   UserSearch
   SignalHire
   Snov

6. FRAVIA: The art of searching - A book with selected writings of Francesco Vianello aka Fravia. Thanks to 

   Soxoj

    for updating and re-publishing it.

   
   

7. Google Dorks for Bug Bounty - A list of Google Dorks for Bug Bounty, Web Application Security, and Pentesting. Credit: @TakSec

8. OSINT Tools for searching emails for a specific domain - 
   Hunter.io (Freemium)
   Findemail (Freemium)
   Infoga (Freeium)
   Experte.com (Free)
   Snov.io (Freemium)
   Minelead (Freemium)
   Anymailfinder (Free trial)

9. Search Engines for Research Papers - 

   https://science.gov

   https://search.worldcat.org

   https://researchgate.net

   https://core.ac.uk

   https://link.springer.com

   https://base-search.net

   https://refseek.com

   https://consensus.app

   https://jstor.org

10. OSINT Tools for Bluesky -
    SkyCircle - Find the nearest like-minded person for any profile.
    BlueSky tools 

That’s it from Cyb_detective newsletter.

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