In this video we're going to take a look at the tool Magritte.
Now this is based off of a fictional French detective.
And this is designed for using the tool for finding usernames where that username was used in other
places.
And this is really useful when, say, we have a Twitter handle or Facebook handle, a handle in some
sort of form, we want to see where else that name was potentially used.
This includes email addresses, because a lot of times people will use the same email name as they will
in other places, and this is where this will come in handy.
So the first part we're going to look at is the GitHub tool.
And you can find at github.com.
Forward slash Magritte and I have the link for this in another one in the description for this video.
So if we scroll down in here this gives us some nice information about the tool.
And you could either install it through a pipe.
Pi pi pi um or clone the repository or docker instance.
If you have Docker, I'm going to do the repository here.
So I'm just going to click the little copy thing right there.
I'm going to open a terminal and I'm going to paste this in here.
Now I already have this installed.
But you can simply do this and it'll go through and install the program for you.
And then you can run it now down in here it gives you some nice usage examples here output as HTML,
PDF, how to use it, so on and so forth.
So another way I've been using for a while now is Osint rocks and you can find this at Osint rocks.
This has several different tools built into this, and I like it a lot because it is simpler.
I don't have to install anything.
It is good to have the backup, uh, installed on your computer.
But as far as, uh, being able to do quick searches like domain IP lookups, telephone lookup, email
addresses, lookup, and username, I like using this.
So I can go in here.
I can go to Magritte, I can type in something like, um.
Elon Musk, click on the search here.
And you can also click on this to get some information.
But if you're not sure what the tool does and we click on the magnifying glass here.
And this will start performing a search for us.
So we'll give this a moment to go ahead and perform the search.
Okay.
And we're back.
So that actually took a really long time to pull up the information.
So I changed the actual search criteria to a human hacker.
But we could see what it looks like on the output.
Now this kind of goes to show that sometimes tools will break.
That's why I always recommend being flexible and how you use the tools.
And also sometimes the web version works better than the GitHub version and vice versa.
So again, be flexible.
Things don't work out, which a lot of times they will not because things never seem to go right during
an investigation.
Be prepared to pivot in another direction to get your findings.
So this is a example output of what you're going to find for Magritte.
So we can see all these different, uh.
Sites that are associated with this username.
Now this may or may not be the particular person that we're that we have in mind, especially depending
on how unique that username is.
And the nice thing is we can see images here.
We can see the ID, we can see the username reputation count zero, reputation neutral.
And we can see an image created on and the time and we can see uh imager, GitHub, Figma, uh, some
Russian telegrams, um accounts, so on and so forth.
And it's always good to go in here and verify the results, because sometimes you will get false positives.
So we click on here.
And yes, it actually does have a human hacker account here on imager.
And that makes sense because it does have a creation date here.
So there's another one here ru.
Yandex ru.
So our Russian site um it community false.
Video channel.
False.
So and so forth.
So you can see there's a lot of great information here.
But again always verify one that the info that the account is actually there because sometimes it,
it might not be.
The second thing is try to verify this is the particular individual or group that you're looking for,
because it may be someone using the same username as the person you're looking for.
But again, uh, great tool to check out.
It's Magritte.
You can find the links on the.
On the description of the video.
So again we have the GitHub version and we have the web version.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next video.