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)