Data gathering and visualisation with Maltego

Posted on Mar 21, 2009 | Comments Off

I just hit my 75 tranformations limit on the community edition of Maltego, and I must say I am quite impressed. This tool allows you to gather data en visualize it in different ways. Data can be technical like domains, websites, netblocks etc but you can also gather information about email adresses and persons.

Maltego gets it’s data from the web and it shows the relation between gathered information.

In the screenshot above I did a transformation on ryoku.org, it visualizes the connections he can find. He found my email adresses and some other data. The nice thing is that you can run transformations on the results again, adding them to the visual map. This gives a nice drilldown feature.

Too bad they have a 75 transformation limit on the community edition, but for the rest very nice and usable tool.