Maltego

Maltego is link analysis software used for open-source intelligence, forensics and other investigations, originally developed by Paterva from Pretoria, South Africa. Maltego offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable. In 2019, the team of Maltego Technologies headquartered in Munich, Germany took over responsibility for all global customer-facing operations, and in 2023 complete technology development and management.

Maltego permits creating custom entities, allowing it to represent any type of information in addition to the basic entity types which are part of the software. The basic focus of the application is analyzing real-world relationships (Social Networks, OSINT APIs, Self-hosted Private Data and Computer Networks Nodes) between people, groups, Webpages, domains, networks, internet infrastructure, and social media affiliations. Maltego extends its data reach with integrations from various data partners. Among its data sources are DNS records, whois records, search engines, social networking services, various APIs and various meta data.

About the Products
Maltego has paid commercial desktop client softwares with options to self-host the servers. Maltego CaseFile is a free commercial desktop client software with features limited to offline manual graph creation.

A free Community Edition account can be created on the Maltego CE account registration page. The desktop client, after installation can be activated to any Maltego type: XL, Classic, CE, and CaseFile.

Maltego is commonly used by enterprises, security researchers and private investigators.