What is Maltego? How to use? One of the most important parts of pentests is the information gathering part. It is an information gathering tool with active and passive information collection feature in Maltego.
Briefly, if we talk about active and passive information collection;Passive Information Collection: We can perform passive information collection as a result of research conducted over the internet through search engines, Whois, DNS query sites and social networking sites, without accessing a system for the institutions and individuals from which we will collect information.
Active Information Collection: It is the information gathering process with the information we find from the passive information collection process. Vulnerabilities are revealed by performing system scans based on the information found.
Maltego is used visually, not console-based, and presents the information it collects to us visually by classifying it.
What can we do with Maltego;
- Domain names
- Whois information
- İp address
- Network Detection
- Email address collection
- Telephone, fax numbers
- Social networks
- Find PDF or other documents