This is the slide pack from my BSides London 2015 workshop. It's slightly modified so you can do it without having to listen to me talk.

1. Maltego Magic
Creating transforms for fun, profit or mischief
by Adam Maxwell (@catalyst256)

2. What’s the crack, Jack?
• Introduction
• Why is Maltego Awesome?
• Maltego Terminology
• Creating Entities
• Creating Transforms
• Creating Machines
• Import/Export Stuff
• You want more?
• Questions

3. Introduction
• Cyber Security Manager (bonus points for having Cyber in job title)
• Maltego, Python & PCAP addict
• Got some certs
• Write a blog
• Do some other stuff

4. Introduction
• Do’s & Don’t’s for today
• Do ask questions.
• Do have fun (or else).
• Do let your imagination run wild (ok, ok not that wild).
• Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
• Don’t click “All Transforms” ever.. Never, ever, no excuses..

5. Why is Maltego Awesome?
• Graphical representation of data (any data
really).
• Does link analysis as well.
• Written by some cool dudes.
• It’s hard to put it into words..

6. Why is Maltego Awesome?
• You can use it for:
• Malware Analysis
• PCAP Analysis
• Netflow Analysis
• Social Media Stalking (not endorsed or encouraged)
• Infrastructure Mapping
• Wireless Stalking (not endorsed or encouraged)
• Honeypot Analysis
• Threat Intelligence Analysis
• You can even use it to attack things (yes it’s offensive
as well).
• And many, many more things…..

7. Maltego Terminology
• Graph
• The thing you put entities on.
• Entity
• A thing that contains some information that you run a
transform against to get another entity with different
information.
• Transform
• A piece of code that takes the information from an
entity, does something and then returns another entity.
• Machine
• A way of running multiple transforms without clicking
anything.

8. The Hands On bit..
• You can get the code samples from:
• https://github.com/catalyst256/MaltegoMagic

9. Creating Entities
• Create a new entity as the base to call our
transforms.
• Remember the “unique type name”
• Watch out for entity inheritance.

10. Creating Transforms
• Create a transform, follow the blog series
here:
• http://itgeekchronicles.co.uk/tag/myfirsttransform/

11. Creating Machines
• Create a machine to run all our transforms

12. Importing/Exporting Stuff
• Export the following:
• Entities
• Transforms
• Machines
• Transform Sets
• Icons
• Watch out for path “issues”.

13. You want more???
• Maltego Development Portal
• http://dev.paterva.com/developer/
• GitHub is your friend
• https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=maltego
• This bloke keeps a list
• http://cmlh.pbworks.com/w/page/52858689/Transforms

14. Questions