The not yet exploited goldmine of osint: Opportunities, open challenges and future trends

G. IP ADDRESS TECHNIQUE

IP addresses are obtained from cyberattack investigations,

email addresses or connections over the Internet. They are

also crucial for digital forensic analysis in order to collect

as much information as possible from an incident. TABLE 8

summarizes some services which facilitate these tasks.

The service IP Location obtains, from a given IP address,

high-level aspects such as location (latitude and longitude),

country, region, city, domain name or ISP (Internet Service

Provider

). If we are interested in specific facts, the website

ViewDNS

provides more technical information apart from the

IP location. In particular, it includes services for displaying

registration information about the associated domain name,

showing additional domains hosted on the IP address, discov-

ering common ports that may be open and services running

on them, or seeing the network path from ViewDNS to the

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J. Pastor-Galindo et al.: The not yet exploited goldmine of OSINT: Opportunities, open challenges and future trends

Real name OSINT service

URL

Main output

Pipl

pipl.com

Personal information

That’s Them

thatsthem.com

Spokeo

spokeo.com

Fast People Search

fastpeoplesearch.com

Personal details, education, professional career,

Nuwber

nuwber.com

skills, locations, and relatives.

Cubib

cubib.com

Peek You

peekyou.com

Yasni

yasni.com

Social networks profiles

Family Search

familysearch.org

Kinship information, relatives

GENi

geni.com

Family Tree Now

familytreenow.com

True People Search

truepeoplesearch.com