Metaforge - An Osint Metadata Analyzing Tool That Filters Through Tags Together With Creates Reports


An OSINT tool that analyzes metadata in addition to creates dynamic reports"


What is "metadata"?

To pose it simply, metadata is precisely information almost data. The information comes from the tags that capture valuable information almost each specific file. Each file has tin convey many unlike tags of information that tin live on retreived for multiple purposes.
The uses for metadata are endless in addition to tin show valuable to those inwards the information safety fields for pentesting in addition to gathering information, similar who created the file in addition to what software was used to edit it.

Metaforge Checklist
  • Must convey a Unix-based Operating System (Arch, Debian, in addition to RHEL Linux distros convey been tested in addition to also Mac OSX)
  • Must convey at to the lowest degree Python3.5 or higher
  • Must house all information yous wishing to analyze inwards the /media directory. Cannot house folders inside the /media directory.

Senior Design Project 2019 - By Chris Morris in addition to Collin Mockbee
H5N1 Python3 Application for Unix-based Operating Systems
Note: Metaforge requires at to the lowest degree python version 3.5 to work!

Supported Filetypes
dll | docx | medico | exe | gif | html | jpeg| mkv | mp3 | mp4 | odp | ods | odt | pdf | png | pptx| ppt | svg | torrent |wav | xlsx | xls |zip |

Setup

Install exiftool
Debian-based
apt install libimage-exiftool-perl
RHEL-based
yum install perl-Image-ExifTool
Arch Linux
pacman -S perl-image-exiftool
Mac OSX
brew install exiftool

Install dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running Metaforge
  1. Place the files yous wishing to analyze inwards the /media directory
  2. Run metaforge.py
python3 metaforge.py

When Metaforge is finished running, check the User_Projects folder in addition to await for the mention of the projection yous entered. Click on the index.html file to sentiment your generated report.
Thanks to...
Exiftool: https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/ phil/exiftool/
progress: https://pypi.org/project/progress/
dominate: https://pypi.org/project/dominate/
colorama: https://pypi.org/project/colorama/
pyexifinfo: https://pypi.org/project/pyexifinfo/