Maltego Trace

Learn how to use Maltego Trace

Welcome to the Maltego Trace Learning Path!

Maltego Trace is a tool that lets investigators capture and preserve vast amounts of social media data from multiple networks before it disappears. This video series provides an overview of Evidence’s core capabilities: data collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting. If this is your first time using Maltego Evidence, please install it first by following the instructions in the setup guide.

Feel free to follow along as you watch the videos. 

Happy learning!

Is this Your First Time Using Maltego Evidence?

How to Access Maltego Evidence

Access and activate your Maltego Evidence account.

Guides

Level of difficulty: Beginner

Introduction

1 – Maltego Evidence Overview

Duration: 2 min
Learn about:
- The main capabilities of Maltego Evidence.

2 – Home screen

Duration: 2 min
Learn about:
- The user interface of Maltego Evidence.

Collect

3 – Adding a Crawling Profile

Duration: 2 min
Learn about:
- The use of crawling profiles in Maltego Evidence.
- Social networks Evidence supports.

4 – Creating a Project
 

Duration: 2 min
Learn how to:
- Create your first crawling project in Maltego Evidence.

5 – Creating a Crawling Task
 

Duration: 4 min
Learn how to:
- Collect data from a social network using crawling profiles.

Analyze

6 – Data Exploration

Duration: 6 min
Learn how to:
- Navigate the Profile Explorer window.
- Switch between viewing different data types such as postings, media, comments,  and locations.
- Find mutually connected users of two or more persons of interest.

7 – Account Linking

Duration: 4 min
Learn how to:
- Identify and link together multiple social media accounts belonging to one person.

8 – Dashboards

Duration: 3 min
Learn how to:
- Visualize key information about your case with the dashboard feature.

9 – Analytics

Duration: 4 min
Learn how to:
- Visualize the connections between persons of interest.
- Identify the central players in a network.

Reporting

10 – Import and Export

Duration: 3 min
Learn how to:
- Share your files with relevant stakeholders by importing and exporting Evidence files.

11 – Reporting in Evidence

Duration: 4 min
Learn how to:
- Create reports with relevant crawled data to present as evidence in court or share with relevant stakeholders.

Resources

If you have questions about features not covered in the videos, refer to our comprehensive documentation linked below. 

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