Building a OSINT Machine (VM) from scratch

Enable virtualization technology in the bios to run virtual machines; access the bios with f1 or f10 during boot, save changes, reboot, and install VirtualBox.

Install VirtualBox on a Windows host to run multiple operating systems on one computer and isolate investigations with snapshots. Learn installation steps and basic virtual machine creation for osint.

Learn to download Debian 64-bit ISO, create a Linux VM in VirtualBox, configure memory and dynamic storage, install Debian, and boot into KDE Plasma.

Resolve the full screen issue in a virtual machine by updating and upgrading the OS, installing the VirtualBox editions, and rebooting to enable full screen.

Learn how to install git on Debian Linux, use root privileges, ensure the system is up to date, and clone GitHub repositories to install tools.

Install and use AnonSurf to route all traffic through the Tor network, enabling anonymized osint workflows with DNS leak protection and dark web access on Debian-based systems.

Twint, a Python-based Twitter scraping tool, retrieves tweets from profiles without the Twitter API. It outputs to text or CSV and supports date and location filters for OSINT.

Demonstrate installing metagoofil on a linux vm and using it to crawl a website for specific file types, downloading PDFs, Excel, and PowerPoint files for osint analysis.

Install the Brave browser, a chromium-based tool with a built-in Tor private window for enhanced anonymity. Use private Tor browsing to mask your location and conduct OSINT investigations securely.

Master OSINT workflows by installing firefox addons like wayback machine, you block origin, https everywhere, netcraft, and shodan in a virtual machine to securely gather evidence and preserve pages.

Explore Intelligence X, a versatile OSINT search engine for domains, emails, IPs, and bitcoin addresses, then export intel from data dumps and breaches, with both free and paid options.

Explore spy dialer for OSINT: perform reverse phone lookups, view phone details and voicemails, and combine with U.S. phone book, white pages, and Google searches.

Explore Spiderfoot, an OSINT web-based tool that crawls the internet for emails, domains, and other data, with a local web interface and configurable scans.

Explore facepair.com to compare two faces, as ai analyzes facial features like the nose and eyes and assesses likeness scores to determine how similar two people look.

Explore meta osint, a GitHub search tool that organizes disinformation and hacking resources by category, highlighting sources like Snopes, PolitiFact, and Hoaxy.

Explore a web page downloader chrome extension to archive and save websites offline, download HTML, images, links, or assets (CSS, JavaScript, PDFs), and inspect site structure.

Build your own osint machine from the ground up using a customizable template of tools and configurations tailored to your investigations.

Customize Linux Mint by changing wallpaper and menu images, adding items, and moving applications. Change lock screen and Plymouth logo by editing backgrounds, resizing to 100 by 100 with pinta.