Study of Bitcoin wallets OSINT BTC 2023
Study of Bitcoin wallets OSINT BTC 2023
In the modern world, most cyber crimes are committed using Bitcoin Wallets. Laundering, Hacking, Blackmail, etc.
Therefore, I decided to write an article on identifying the owner of a BTC Wallet.
Trite, but important.
The simplest thing you can do when trying to calculate the owner of such a wallet is to look at its transactions thanks to the blockchain.
Blockchain is a transaction database consisting of a sequentially built chain of digital blocks, each of which stores information about the previous and next blocks.
To view transactions, we can use a simple blockchain explorer - WalletExplorer.
Transaction visualization and analysis
To visualize Bitcoin Wallet transactions, I can recommend you the OXT.ME service , since the service that I used previously for the same purposes ( Crystal Explorer ) has been disabled for several weeks. OXT is available only to PC users, with a minimum screen expansion of 1280*520 pixels, which in my opinion is justified. Sometimes, the graphs become so large that it will be difficult to understand something from a phone or tablet. The service will be available to you immediately after registration.
There is also an analogue of the above-mentioned service, Blockpath . For me personally, it is not as convenient as OXT, but as they say, there are no friends, so let’s talk a little about this service. There are certainly advantages here too, the “Accounting” tab, for example, showing a detailed report on the last transaction. Blockpath has no screen resolution restrictions and no registration is required.
Blockpath service interface
Looking for related wallets
By analyzing transactions, it is possible to find certain patterns in the user’s transfers, for example, we can notice that a person sends money to a certain address once a month, this is the same pattern. Let's look at different patterns: • Subscription payment
The user sends a fixed amount of money every month/year/day, etc. Perhaps he pays for a subscription to some service. You can check this by googling the wallet to which funds are sent; most likely, as a result you will receive a link to pay for the web resource.
• Payment or blackmail
If we see a fixed amount being sent every month/year/day, etc. then we can assume that this is payment for labor, especially if the recipient’s Bitcoin wallet is similar to a personal one. It could also be blackmail, it’s hard to tell the difference. If the amount is not fixed and $150 is sent in one month, and $200 in the second, this could be blackmail, of course, it is impossible to say for sure. • Distribution of funds
If we see that the owner of a wallet irregularly and chaotically sends large amounts of money to another wallet, then we can assume that he is distributing funds between his wallets.
• Premium Bitcoin Mixer
Bitcoin Mixer is an anonymization service that makes it much more difficult to track transactions in the Bitcoin system.
When a user sends a transaction through it, the mixer breaks it into many small particles, and then mixes it with other people’s transactions in such a way that not a single “piece” of the original transaction remains in the transfer of a particular user.
If you see that within a certain period of time a certain amount of money was sent to different wallets, then a mixer was probably used. By using a Bitcoin mixer, the user is trying to hide something from the public, usually money laundering. Tracking such a transaction is extremely difficult and will take you some time.
Reviews
There are special sites containing a database of complaints about Bitcoin Wallets from scammers, hackers, blackmailers, etc.
This is the most popular complaint service for Bitcoin Wallets, the service allows you to leave a tag and write your own review.
Shows the balance in euros, dollars and BTC, finds the possible owner, mentions on the Internet and on forums, as well as other information. And of course, it shows complaints, tags and countries, the person who complained.
In principle, the service is no different from the first one, but there may be complaints that are not in other reviews
I will not further list the other reviewers, since there are a lot of them. You can find them by searching on Google.
We check the wallet for suspicious activity and “dirty money”.
Services that show Bitcoin wallet scoring will help us with this.
Scoring is an assessment system that helps credit institutions predict the payment discipline of a person applying for a loan.
I use the AMLBot service most actively . The service shows a trust score and describes the activity of the crypto wallet in a detailed report, based on its own algorithms.
One of the advantages is that all this is in the form of a Telegram Bot, and the disadvantage is that the service is paid.
Search on the Internet
What will you do first when faced with the task of figuring out the owner of a BTC Wallet? That's right - Google it.
As a result, you can get mentions on forums, mentions on websites, perhaps someone left a wallet as payment details, or a donation.
It is better to use different search engines, especially those listed below.
Yandex - Most likely, you will get more Russian websites as a result. Google - More results from foreign web resources. DuckDuckGo - Resources with the .onion domain zone will be available.
You can also contact Bing, Yahoo, Swisscows, etc.
For a more efficient search, you can use Google-Dorking.
Google Dorking involves using advanced operators in the Google search engine to find specific strings of text in search results.
You can use the banal “BTC wallet” to filter out unnecessary results, or the more advanced, but still banal “BTC wallet” site: site of interest, this will help determine the involvement of the site you are interested in to the wallet.
Or, you can use more advanced search methods and use this cheat sheet. By following the link you can see 15 thousand Google Dorks intended for BTC Wallets. Of course, trying them all will take a lot of time, so you can only use the ones that interest you.
Monitoring cryptocurrency wallets
It is possible to track the activity of wallets through specialized services. One of these services is Cryptocurrencyalerting . The service will send you a message about a decrease or increase in the amount of money on this crypto wallet. So there is a function that will notify you of any activity of the crypto wallet. The service allows you to notify about an action in any way convenient for you. Telegram message, phone call, push notification, etc.
There is also a service called cryptotxalert , with similar functionality. One of the advantages here is that you can set the amount of money, and when you replenish your wallet with this amount of money, you will receive a notification. The message comes in the form of a push notification and nothing more; if in the previous service it was possible to receive a notification in ten convenient ways, then here there is only one way.
Well, if you are too lazy to investigate on your own or at the moment you do not have enough experience, just turn to professionals, and the evil will be punished!
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