Lion Cipher Lab
Map relationships with Maltego (link analysis for OSINT)
- Threat Intel Analyst
- Beginner
- ~45 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
Intelligence work is rarely about one fact — it is about how facts connect. A domain leads to name servers, which lead to other domains, which lead to email addresses, which lead to people. Maltego turns that web of relationships into a picture you can actually reason about, and it is a staple in real threat-intel and OSINT teams. Learning to build a graph — and to do it ethically, against targets you're allowed to touch — is a core analyst skill.
What you'll learn
- link analysis
- OSINT graphing
- entity/transform model
- footprinting a domain you own
Steps in this lab
- What link analysis is, and when you'd reach for it
- The one rule before you touch a keyboard: only your own turf
- Install Maltego Community Edition and register
- Create a graph and drop your first entity
- Run your first transforms — let the graph grow
- Read the picture: what the graph is telling you
- When Maltego is the wrong tool (and the honest limits of CE)