Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows you to mine and gather information and represent the information in a meaningful way. The phrase open source in Maltego means that it gathers information from open source resources. After gathering the information, Maltego allows you to identify the key relationship between the information gathered.
Maltego is a tool that can graphically display the links between data, so it will make it easier to see the common aspects between pieces of information.
Maltego allows you to enumerate the following internet infrastructure information:
- Domain names
- DNS names
- Whois information
- Network blocks
- IP addresses
It can also be used to gather the following information ...