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OSINT Tool Deep-Dives

In-depth guides to specific OSINT and recon tools: what they do well and where they fall short.

• nitefood/asn: BGP and IP Recon for Analysts

  2026-09-13

  How to use nitefood/asn for ASN lookups, RPKI validation, BGP path analysis, and IP reputation checks in offensive and defensive workflows.

• subzeroid/instagrapi: A Security Analyst's Field Guide

  2026-08-30

  A practical breakdown of instagrapi for OSINT analysts: what it does, where it fits, how it compares to alternatives, and a reproducible 10-minute recipe.

• theHarvester: Passive Recon Asset Discovery

  2026-08-09

  How laramies theHarvester fits into a real OSINT workflow — source selection, API configuration, output parsing, and a reproducible ten-minute recon recipe.

• OWASP Amass for Attack Surface Mapping

  2026-07-26

  How OWASP Amass works, where it fits your recon pipeline, how it stacks up against Subfinder and SpiderFoot, and a reproducible 10-minute hands-on recipe.

• reconFTW: Recon Orchestration from Domain to Findings

  2026-06-28

  How six2dez/reconFTW orchestrates subdomain enum, port scanning, and Nuclei against a target — setup, config, triage, and when to skip it.

• Passive Subdomain Enumeration with subfinder

  2026-06-22

  How projectdiscovery subfinder works, where it fits against Amass and assetfinder, and a reproducible pipeline from install to live-host list.

• projectdiscovery httpx: HTTP Enumeration at Scale

  2026-06-15

  How projectdiscovery httpx works, where it fits between subfinder and nuclei, how it compares to httprobe and EyeWitness, and a reproducible recon recipe.

• BBOT: Recursive Recon for External Attack Surface Mapping

  2026-06-01

  How blacklanternsecurity/bbot's event-graph model works, where it beats Amass and Subfinder pipelines, and a passive scan recipe you can run in 10 minutes.

• ivre: Self-Hosted Network Recon Framework

  2026-05-17

  ivre gives you Shodan-style querying over scan data you own. Here's how it fits an analyst's workflow and how to stand it up in under ten minutes.