1 . Introduction
2 . My Setup
3 . What is Maigret?
4 . Why use Maigret?
5 . How to use Maigret?
6 . Summary
This post is designed to introduce you to the tool Maigret.
1. Introduction
Welcome to the forty-fifth blog post of 100 tools in 100 days.
Find Maigret @ GitHub here.
Maigret was created by a user named Soxoj, find Soxoj here.
2. My Setup
For running the Maigret tool, I used Kali Linux in a VMware Workstation 16 Player virtualized environment.
3. What is Maigret?
Maigret is similar to the tool Blackbird from my post on day 36 which can be found here.
Maigret searches up to 2500 sites for a username, compiles the found information, and can output it in many formats, such as PDF.
4. Why use Maigret?
As a penetration tester, it is important to leverage all avenues of approach that may lead to entry into a network during testing. Using Maigret can help a Penetration tester find information about employees at the organization which may provide additional information.
5. How to use Maigret?
Step 1:
Installing Maigret is easy, in your terminal enter the following command:
sudo pip3 install maigret
Step 2:
View the help menu to understand the options and the
functionality of Maigret:
maigret -h
Step 3:
For this example, I performed a search for the username 'analytic' by
entering the following command:
maigret analytic --pdf
Step 4:
At the end of the search Maigret will tell you where it has output the report.
Step 5:
Opening the report shows me all information scraped from sites where a user named analytic was found.
6. Summary
Maigret is a great alternative to using the tool Blackbird. Maigret searches more than 2500 websites for usernames and scrapes specific data from those sites and outputs the results into an easy to read format, such as PDF, HTML, etc.
I hope you enjoyed this blog post.
Thanks for reading!
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