OSINT Bible 23. Metadata Extraction
Complete suite:
Tool File Type URL Platform
ExifTool Images, PDF, Office https://exiftool.org CLI
FOCA Office, PDF (GUI) https://github.com/ElevenPaths/FOCA Windows
Metagoofil Public documents https://github.com/laramies/metagoofil CLI
MAT2 Metadata cleaner https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 CLI
Metadata workflow:
# 1. Extract metadata
exiftool -a -u -g1 document.pdf > metadata.txt
# 2. Search sensitive info
grep -i "author|creator|email|gps" metadata.txt
# 3. Clean before publishing
mat2 --inplace clean_document.pdf
Sections
23. Metadata Extraction
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