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Skills

Techniques

  • Email & username enumeration / correlation across platforms
  • Breach data analysis & credential exposure lookups — maintain a personal collection of 3700+ leaks
  • Social media investigation — profile linking, activity analysis, network mapping
  • Metadata extraction (EXIF, document metadata, file properties)
  • Geolocation — image/video geolocation, landmark identification
  • Satellite & aerial imagery analysis
  • Physical/facility recon — satellite and street-view cross-referencing, badge/uniform identification
  • Domain & infrastructure recon — WHOIS, DNS, subdomain enumeration, certificate transparency, passive DNS
  • IP/network intelligence — ASN lookup, hosting provider identification
  • Phone number intelligence — carrier lookup, associated accounts
  • Image analysis — reverse image search, manipulation detection
  • Corporate/company investigation — ownership structures, registries, financial filings (FININT)
  • People search / identity resolution — aliases, public records
  • Dark web / forum monitoring
  • Social engineering / pretexting for information gathering
  • Archive & historical data research — cached content, deleted content recovery
  • Code repository OSINT — GitHub/GitLab recon, exposed secrets, contributor fingerprinting
  • Cryptocurrency wallet tracing / blockchain analysis
  • Vehicle/asset tracing — plates, VIN lookups
  • Timeline reconstruction / event correlation
  • Threat actor profiling / attribution

Tools

Mostly a mix of custom-built tooling and established OSINT software.

Own tools: Chelicera, Stinger, Mailrain, and others not published publicly.

Third-party:

  • Shodan / Censys
  • Sherlock (username enumeration)
  • SpiderFoot
  • ExifTool
  • Google Dorking across multiple search engines
  • Have I Been Pwned and other breach databases
  • Wayback Machine and other archive aggregators
  • OSINT Framework (methodology reference)
  • WHOIS / DNS tooling — dig, whois, crt.sh
  • Reverse image search — Google Lens, Yandex, TinEye
  • Holehe, GHunt (account/email enumeration)
  • dnsdumpster, SecurityTrails
  • Amass, Sublist3r (subdomain enumeration)