Social engineering – linking accounts

In this section, we will learn how to target a person. We are going to start with just a person's name, and then see how we can gather information about that person and build up an attack strategy. As we do that, we're also going to look at more of Maltego's features and how to configure a few more settings. So, we are going to start a new graph by clicking on the plus sign, as shown in the following screenshot:

Inside the Entity Palette, search for a Person entity under the Personal section, and then drag and drop the Person entity to the workspace. We are going to assume that we have a target and we know their name, so the first name is Zaid and the surname is Sabih. We're going to go to the Property View tab and set the First Names property; just double-click it. We are going to set it to Zaid, and then we are going to set the Surname property to Sabih, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, let's see what information can we gather about the entity...