Multipurpose Reconnaissance Tools

Multipurpose tools gather multiple pieces of information in one go, as opposed to a single type of data

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Maltego

  • long standing general-purpose OSINT tool with graphical interface
  • Free community edition available, with data gathering limitations
  • $1000/year professional license

TheHarvester

  • performs open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a domain's external threat landscape.
  • gathers names, emails, IPs, subdomains, and URLs by using multiple public resources
  • Language: python

Spiderfoot