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

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.

apt install python python3 python3-pip python3-pypdf2
pip3 install tabula

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.

git clone https://github.com/alpkeskin/mosint.git
cd mosint/
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

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.

nano config.json
https://verify-email.org/
https://hunter.io/
https://leak-lookup.com/

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 >

python3 mosint.py -e deneme@gmail.com

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.