MOSINT – An Email OSINT Tool

 Hey Folks, the article is based on email footprinting for which we will present a tool called “MOSINT“. MOSINT is an OSINT Tool for emails. It helps you gather information about the target email. The tool is designed in python language from which we can gather the following information about the target email.

MOSINT Features

  • Verification Service { Check if email exist }
  • Check social accounts with Socialscan
  • Check data breaches
  • [need API] Find related emails
  • Find related phone numbers
  • Find related domains
  • Scan Pastebin Dumps
  • Google Search
  • DNS Lookup

Let’s take a look 😛 !!

Dependencies Installation

First of all we need to install dependencies before installation of this tool. Let’s execute the below command and install all necessary dependencies.

Mosint Tool Installation

After installing the dependency, come to the installation section of this tool. To install the tool, execute the git command, go to the directory and execute the “pip” command to install the rest of the dependencies.

Configuration

Basically it uses some open source web service to get the information, hence you have to go to these given websites one by one to get the API keys and save in “config.json” file.

REady 😛 !! Now all the work is done and we are ready to boot this tool. All you have to do is provide the target email address. After executing the command the tool will show us green signs in all if all keys are valid.

Usage 🙂 !! python3 mosint.py -e < email >

Check Availability and Validation

After that tool checks whether the email is legitimate and it tries to locate the email on various social media handlers as well.

Related Emails, Phone Numbers and More

It also check related email address, phone numbers, documents, domains and more.

Mail Records

As we know that Mail eXchange-record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS), who dumps it too.


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