There are many open source intelligence (OSINT) resources available for investigators looking for extra information about the people, places, or events they are interested in. From IP address to phone number or company information, open source intelligence can help you go beyond the data you already have access to in order to bring additional context to an investigation and reveal new insights.
For investigators looking for an easy way to integrate this external data into their investigations, Custom Actions in Linkurious offer a user-friendly solution. We’ll show you how they work, along with examples of how you can pull this data into your investigation in just a few clicks. We’ll also take a brief look at the new CSV Import feature in Linkurious, another user-friendly way to bring outside data into your workflow.
Looking for more about OSINT tools? Take a look at our article on 20+ OSINT tools to deepen your investigations.
You can quickly integrate OSINT tools into your investigation workflows using the Custom Actions feature in Linkurious. A Custom Action takes information from a node or a relationship and uses it to generate a dynamic URL based on a template that you provide.
Custom Actions make it possible to enrich the insights provided by Linkurious with external tools and resources. With this, you can for example quickly pivot from visualizing an individual within the Linkurious UI and into this person’s Wikipedia page to get access to more information.
Here's an example of a Custom Action to look up an address:
Let’s take a look at concrete examples of Custom Actions used in OSINT investigations to retrieve information about phone numbers, addresses, IP addresses, emails, companies, bank accounts, and persons. (Note that these services evolve quickly and may become deprecated.)
https://www.reversephonelookup.com/{{node.name}}/
https://usphonebook.com/{{node.name}}
https://thatsthem.com/reverse-phone-lookup{{node.name}}
https://www.spokeo.com/{{node.name}}
https://www.411.com/reverse-phone{{node.name}}https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query={{node.latitude}},{{node.longitude}}https://whois.domaintools.com/{{node.name}}
https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/{{node.name}}
https://www.ip2location.com/demo/{{node.ip}}
https://ip-api.com/#{{node.ip}}https://person.clearbit.com/v2/combined/find?email={{node.name}} (paying)
https://thatsthem.com/reverse-email-lookup{{node.email}}
https://www.skymem.info/srch?q={{node.email}}&ss=homehttps://opencorporates.com/companies?jurisdiction_code=&q={{node.name}}&utf8=%E2%9C%93
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/top-results.html?term={{node.name}}&page=1
https://www.aihitdata.com/search/companies?c={{node.name}}&i=&l=&k=&r=&t=&rc=&v=3https://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term={{node.name}}https://openiban.com/{{node.IBAN}}?getBIC=true&validateBankCode=truehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/{{node.wikidataId}}
https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/{{node.id}}
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?cat=2&e=&q={{node.full_name}}&utf8=%E2%9C%93https://linkurious.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/Account/{{node.SF_ID}}/viewhttps://www.google.com/search?q={{node.first_name}}+{{node.last_name}}+AND+%28"money+laundering"+OR+"scam"+OR+"fraud"+OR+"crime"+OR+"arrest"+OR+"suspect"+OR+"crypto"+OR+"OFAC"%29
https://whatsmyname.app/?q={{node.name}}Another easy way to bring external data into your OSINT investigation is with the CSV Import feature. This allows you to quickly upload and explore new datasets in the widely supported CSV format without any technical setup or connectors. It’s much easier and more lightweight than configuring an entire new data source. This flexibility makes it easy to import data from a wide variety of external systems or tools.
See a quick demo of how it works:
If you want to go further, there are multiple resources available that list other services (some require a registration). Find information of interest? Try adding it to your investigation workflow via Custom Actions or CSV Import.
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