Toolbox
The Lab tools
They imitate very real OSINT services, but only know the Lab's fictional domains and usernames.
Who registered a domain name, and when.
In real life: whois, ICANN Lookup
Old versions of a website's pages.
In real life: Wayback Machine
Public logs of HTTPS certificates: they reveal subdomains.
In real life: crt.sh
On which Lab platforms does a username exist?
In real life: WhatsMyName, Sherlock
Camera, date and GPS position hidden in a photo (EXIF).
In real life: exiftool, Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer
Officers, filed documents and links between companies.
In real life: Annuaire des entreprises, Pappers, OpenCorporates
A domain's records: mail, verifications, subdomains.
In real life: dig, DNSDumpster, SecurityTrails
Base64, hexadecimal, binary, ROT13, Caesar, Vigenère.
In real life: CyberChef, dCode
A message hidden in an image's pixels (LSB).
In real life: zsteg, StegOnline, Aperi'Solve
What a sound hides in its frequencies.
In real life: Audacity, Sonic Visualiser
All the readable text hidden in a file.
In real life: strings, binwalk
Has an address or a username leaked?
In real life: Have I Been Pwned, DeHashed
Watermarks hidden in a text (zero-width spaces).
In real life: dCode, hex editor
City and provider of an IP address.
In real life: ipinfo.io, IP whois
A plane's flight history from its registration.
In real life: Flightradar24, FlightAware
Follow the money on a blockchain.
In real life: mempool.space, Blockchair
The websites that share the same analytics identifier.
In real life: DNSlytics, SpyOnWeb, BuiltWith
MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 of a list of texts.
In real life: CyberChef, md5sum
Where does an image appear, even cropped?
In real life: Google Lens, TinEye, Yandex Images
Location of a Wi-Fi access point from its name or MAC address.
In real life: WiGLE
Sun position and cast shadows: date a photo.
In real life: SunCalc, PeakVisor