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OSINT-Beginner-Field-Guide

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A practical beginner-friendly OSINT field guide covering username enumeration, social media, search engines, reverse-image search, metadata, GEOINT, public documents, pivoting, correlation, and verification through a real self-OSINT case study.

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# 🕵️ OSINT PLAYBOOK

Find the signal. Follow the pivot. Verify the evidence.

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## 🔎 What is this?

A practical **OSINT & digital investigation playbook** focused on finding, connecting and verifying publicly available intelligence.

Not just:

```text
Tool → Command → Result
````

Instead:

```text
LEAD
 ↓
DISCOVER
 ↓
PIVOT
 ↓
CORRELATE
 ↓
VERIFY
 ↓
DOCUMENT
```

> **Tools produce results. Investigators produce intelligence.**

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## 🧬 Investigation Model

```text
             ┌──────────────┐
             │  INITIAL LEAD│
             └──────┬───────┘
                    ↓
          ┌───────────────────┐
          │     DISCOVERY     │
          └─────────┬─────────┘
                    ↓
          ┌───────────────────┐
          │       PIVOT       │
          └─────────┬─────────┘
                    ↓
          ┌───────────────────┐
          │    CORRELATION    │
          └─────────┬─────────┘
                    ↓
          ┌───────────────────┐
          │   VERIFICATION    │
          └─────────┬─────────┘
                    ↓
          ┌───────────────────┐
          │     EVIDENCE      │
          └───────────────────┘
```

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# 📚 Playbook

### 👤 Identity & Username

`01 Username OSINT` · `02 Sherlock` · `03 Maigret`

Discover public profiles and investigate username reuse across platforms.

### 🌐 Search & Social

`04 Search Engines` · `05 Social Media OSINT` · `07 Search Engines OSINT`

Search smarter using operators, pivots, context and independent sources.

### 🖼️ Image Intelligence

`06 Reverse Image OSINT`

```text
TinEye  •  Google Lens  •  Bing Visual Search
```

Find public matches, historical appearances and visual connections.

### 🌍 Infrastructure

`08 Domain & DNS` · `09 WHOIS/RDAP` · `10 Certificate Transparency`

Move from:

```text
DOMAIN → DNS → SUBDOMAIN → CERTIFICATE → INFRASTRUCTURE
```

### 📄 Documents & Metadata

`11 Public Documents` · `12 Metadata`

Extract useful investigative context from publicly available files and images.

### 📧 Email Intelligence

`15 Email OSINT`

Treat an email as an **investigation pivot**, not an endpoint.

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# 🧪 Practical Case Study

This repository includes a real investigation workflow demonstrating how one public lead can develop into multiple pivots.

```text
redteamerx
     ↓
public bio
     ↓
h4cker_fawad
     ↓
public links
     ↓
GitHub
     ↓
public identifiers
     ↓
email
     ↓
reverse-image research
     ↓
metadata / username correlation
     ↓
verification
```

### Evidence

All screenshots are organized inside:

```text
evidence/
├── 01-redteamerx.png
├── 02-h4cker-fawad.png
├── 03-public-links.png
├── 04-github.png
├── 05-github-finding.png
├── 06-facebook-email.png
├── 07-tineye.png
├── 08-google-lens.png
├── 09-bing.png
├── 10-exif.png
├── 11-maigret.png
└── 12-google-lens-metadata.png
```

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# 🧠 Investigator Rules

```text
01  A result is a lead.
02  A lead is not automatically evidence.
03  Correlation is not proof.
04  Verify important findings independently.
05  Separate FACT from INFERENCE.
06  Preserve the evidence trail.
```

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# 📈 PLAYBOOK STATUS

```text
████████████████████████████████████████
                EXPANDING
████████████████████████████████████████
```

New tools, methodologies, research and case studies are continuously being added.

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# ⚖️ Responsible Use

For:

* OSINT education
* Security research
* Digital investigations
* Authorized assessments
* Academic research

Respect privacy. Do not use these techniques for unauthorized access, harassment, credential theft or unnecessary exposure of personal information.

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# 👤 Author

Fawad Qureshi 
 Offensive Security Researcher • OSINT • Red Teaming • Security Research

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