Human // Collection and Pretext

OSINT Quick Reference

This Social Engineering field brief frames OSINT Quick Reference around the trust boundaries an authorized assessor needs to verify. Use it to plan safe validation, capture reproducible evidence and distinguish a meaningful control failure from an isolated technical symptom.

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Why it matters in practice

Within Social Engineering, OSINT Quick Reference changes how scope, prerequisites and evidence should be handled. Focus on the concrete asset or data flow under test, record the assumptions that make the condition exploitable and connect verified behavior to an operational consequence and remediation decision.

This note keeps OSINT Quick Reference tied to offensive workflow: what to observe, what to prove, what usually goes wrong, and which references remain useful once an assessment moves from planning into active validation.

Primary coverage

The coverage below turns OSINT Quick Reference into an assessment map for Social Engineering: identify the relevant system boundary, select a safe validation path, preserve evidence and record uncertainty before drawing a conclusion.

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Assessment focus

OSINT

#Google OSINT:

term AND term site:asdf.de

„Term“ site:asdg.de

*Term site:asdg.de

site:asdf.de filetype:pdf

Site:asdf.de intext:password

https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database

#Image OSINT:
https://tineye.com/search
http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi

#E-Mail OSINT:
https://hunter.io/search/
https://phonebook.cz
https://tools.emailhippo.com

https://github.com/khast3x/h8mail
https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester


# Password OSINT
https://intelx.io
https://haveibeenpwned.com

https://dehashed.com/
https://weleakinfo.to/login
https://leakcheck.net
https://snusbase.com




#Username OSINT
https://namechk.com
https://whatsmyname.app

https://github.com/WebBreacher/WhatsMyName


#People OSINT
https://www.whitepages.com
https://webmii.com
https://peekyou.com
https://www.411.com
https://www.spokeo.com
https://pipl.com/product/pipl-search
https://peoplemon.com


#Phone OSINT
https://www.truecaller.com
https://calleridtest.com
https://www.infobel.com/de/world
https://github.com/sundowndev/phoneinfoga
https://www.phonesearch.us/home.php



#SOCMINT
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
https://github.com/MrNonoss/Profil3r-docker



-TWITTER
https://twitter.com/search-advanced
https://socialbearing.com
https://www.twitonomy.com
https://mentionmapp.com
https://tweetbeaver.com
http://spoonbill.io
https://tinfoleak.com
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com

https://github.com/twintproject/twint


-Facebook
https://sowdust.github.io/fb-search/
https://intelx.io/tools?tab=facebook

-Instagram
https://codeofaninja.com/tools/find-instagram-user-id/
https://www.instadp.com
https://imginn.com

https://github.com/Datalux/Osintgram
https://github.com/sc1341/InstagramOSINT


-Snapchat
https://map.snapchat.com

-Reddit
https://www.reddit.com

-LinkedIn/Xing
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.xing.com/home

-TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com


#WEB OSINT
https://builtwith.com/
https://centralops.net/co/
https://dnslytics.com/reverse-ip
https://spyonweb.com/
https://www.virustotal.com/
https://visualping.io
http://backlinkwatch.com/index.php
https://viewdns.info
https://www.robtex.com
https://pentest-tools.com/information-gathering/find-subdomains-of-domain#
https://spyse.com
https://crt.sh
https://www.shodan.io
https://web.archive.org
https://www.whois.com 
https://www.wappalyzer.com
https://github.com/weppos/whois
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/subfinder



#Business OSINT
https://www.aihitdata.com
https://opencorporates.com
https://www.maltego.com/transform-hub/bureau-van-dijk-orbis/



#WLAN OSINT
https://wigle.net

#OSINT Automation
https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon
https://www.kali.org/tools/recon-ng/
https://www.spiderfoot.net

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