maltego

TLDR

Start Maltego

$ maltego

Start community edition

$ maltego ce

Run headless with config

$ maltego -i [config.mtgx]

Maltego is an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and graphical link analysis tool. It visualizes relationships between entities like people, organizations, domains, IP addresses, and infrastructure.
Maltego uses transforms to automatically gather data from various sources and display connections in a graph format.

PARAMETERS

Community edition mode.

-i file

Import configuration.

--help

Show help.

ENTITY TYPES

$ - Infrastructure: Domains, IPs, DNS
- Personal: Names, Email, Social
- Network: AS Numbers, Netblocks
- Documents: Files, URLs

EDITIONS

$ Community (CE) - Free, limited transforms
Classic - Commercial
XL - Enterprise scale

CAVEATS

Requires Java. CE edition has limitations. Transform servers may have rate limits. Premium transforms require subscriptions.

HISTORY

Maltego was developed by Paterva in South Africa, first released in 2008. It became a standard tool in penetration testing and intelligence gathering.