This script will automatically set up an open source intelligence (OSINT) workstation starting from a clean Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS Virtual Machine/Workstation.
Best practices recommend using a new VM for each OSInt investigation.
Even if there are several ready-made VMs available on the Internet, I wanted to study how to customise my workstation following what Michael Bazzell suggests in his book, Open Source Intelligence Techniques - 7th Edition, about creating your own custom VM.
This script will set up the workstation by installing most of the scripts suggested by Michael, and further tools will be added in the future.
To install and run Argos, you need:
- an Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS virtual machine/workstation
- set your user on "osint"
- Please use English Language!
This script implies that you rely on VmWare for virtualization. Just in case, I included a commented out portion of code which will install virtual box tools.
N.B.: This script has been tested on:
- Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS VM.
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM.
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VM (Firefox will not be customised).
- Amass
- instaloader
- InstaLooter
- Toutatis
- HTTrack
- MediaInfo
- ExifTool
- EyeWitness
- sublist3r
- Photon
- The Harvester
- Metagoofil
- recon-ng
- sherlock
- spiderfoot
- webosint
- blackbird
- Elasticsearch-Crawler
- Ripgrep
- holehe
- kali-anonstealth
- Moriarty-Project V2.6
- maigret
- Maltego
- and more!
- VLC
- Google Earth
- wget
- cherrytree
- Atom
- KeepassXC
- Kazam
- Audacity
- Ripgrep
- Tor Browser
- OpenShot
- Obisidian Please refer to this article 1
- Threat Intelligence Resources Please refer to those articles 1 and 2
- and more!
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Open the Terminal app
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Make sure and/or install that the GIT command is available in your VM:
sudo apt install -y git
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Clone this repository in the
/Download/
directory:git clone https://github.com/SOsintOps/Argos ~/Downloads/Argos
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make the setup script executable:
sudo chmod +x ~/Downloads/Argos/setup.sh
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Close FireFox and run the file:
~/Downloads/Argos/setup.sh
- Add more functionality to the existing bash shortcuts, such as predefined spiderfoot searches or RiskIQ CLI.
- set osint report templates as libreoffice's templates.
- customise the user profile.
- add Nmap/zenmap, electrum wallet, gpa gui for PGP keys, Openshot video editor, hunchly, etc.
- OSInOps website
- Presentazione Argos - lingua italiana
- OSInt Daily News
- Open Source Intelligence Techniques - Michael Bazzell
- Skykn0t for writing the original OSINT_VM_Setup script
- oh6hay for suggesting the script's name!
- pinkevilpimp for the wallpaper script
Please refer to the license files.