[<MEGAPRIMER 1.0.4>Maltego<G>ENUMERATION>INFORMATION GATHERING]

"Information is POWER >> Information is MALTEGO"

What is Maltego?

Maltego is the sum aggregation audit of public information posted all over the internet.Maltego uses open source intelligence and a gui to build relationships making it possible to see hidden connections.

For digital forensics maltego offers unprecedented information.
What can Maltego do?
Maltego can be used for information gathering to determine relationships and real world links between:

• People & Groups of People(Social Networks)
• Companies & Organisations
• Websites & Internet Infrastructures
• Phrases,Affiliations,documents & Files

Digital Forensics Audits made available by the tool

Maltego is an information gathering tool that allows you to visually see relationships. Maltego allows you to enumerate network and domain information like:

• Domain Names
• Whois Information
• DNS Names
• Netblocks
• IP Addresses

Maltego also allows you to enumerate People information like:

• Email addresses associated with a person's name
• Web sites associated with a person's name
• Phone numbers associated with a person's name
• Social groups that are associated with a person's name
• Companies and organizations associated with a person's name

Maltego also allows you to:

• Do simple verification of email addresses
• Search blogs for tags and phrases
• Identify incoming links for websites
• Extract metadata from files from target domains

Who is it written for?

Security Professionals;

• Maltego can be used for the information gathering phase of all security related work. It will save you time and will allow you to work more accurately and smarter.
• Maltego aids you in your thinking process by visually demonstrating interconnected links between searched items.
• Maltego provide you with a much more powerful search, giving you smarter results.
• If access to "hidden" information determines your success, Maltego can help you discover it.

Black&Grey Hats

Maltego provide all of the above 

Passive reconneisance of assets ie Devices,infrustructure,Location,Social Engineering and system attacks.

Investigation,presentation and Management by Maltego reduces time to zoning down on a victim

Continuation on this megaprimer next post

1. Installing and Setting up Maltego 3.1 community on BT5R2
2. Enumerate real life assets,try to get as much forensic info as we can 
3. Lock down