OSINT BTC Bitcoin Wallet Research 2023

By Andrey Plat 

Startups and business

January 29, 2023

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In the modern world, most of the cybercrimes are committed using Bitcoin Wallets. Laundering, Hacking, Blackmail, etc.

Therefore, I decided to write an article on identifying the owner of a BTC Wallet.

**Title:**  

OSINT BTC Bitcoin Wallet Research 2023

**Subtitle:**  

Utilizing Open Source Intelligence for BTC Wallet Owner Analysis

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**Introduction:**  

In the modern world, most cybercrimes are carried out using Bitcoin wallets. Money laundering, hacking, blackmail, and more – these are just a few examples.

That's why I've decided to write an article about identifying the owner of a BTC wallet.

Seemingly banal, yet crucial.

The simplest approach to determine the owner of such a wallet is to examine their transactions through the power of blockchain technology.

Blockchain serves as a database of transactions, composed of sequentially linked digital blocks, each storing information about previous and subsequent blocks.

To scrutinize transactions, we can employ a user-friendly blockchain explorer called WalletExplorer.

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**Conclusion:**  

Identifying the owner of a BTC wallet using open-source intelligence methods proves essential in the modern era. Analyzing transactions can uncover patterns and connections indicative of specific users. The utilization of services like OXT.ME and Blockpath assists in visualizing and analyzing wallet transactions. Pay attention to distinct patterns that may signify subscriptions, blackmail, fund distribution, and other aspects of Bitcoin usage.

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Banal, but important.

The easiest thing you can do when trying to figure out the owner of such a wallet is to look at their transactions thanks to the blockchain.

Blockchain is a database with transactions, 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.

WalletExplorer interface

Visualization and analysis of transactions

To visualize Bitcoin Wallet transactions, I can advise you the OXT.ME service , since the service that I used earlier for the same purposes ( Crystal Explorer ) has been disabled for several weeks. OXT is available only to a PC user, with a minimum screen resolution 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.

OXT.ME service interface

There is also an analogue of the above service, Blockpath . For me personally, it is not as convenient as OXT, but as they say, there are no comrades for taste and color, so let's talk a little about this service. Here, too, of course, there are pluses, the "Accounting" tab, for example, showing a detailed report on the last transaction. Blockpath has no screen resolution limit and registration is not required.

Blockpath service interface

Looking for related wallets

Analyzing transactions, it is possible to find certain patterns in user 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 analyze different patterns: • Payment for a subscription

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 the funds are sent, most likely, as a result you will receive a link to pay for the web resource.

• Pay or blackmail

If we observe sending a fixed amount every month / year / day, etc. then, we can assume that this is wages, especially if the recipient's bitcoin wallet looks like a personal one. Also, it can be blackmail, it is difficult to distinguish. If the amount is not fixed and $150 is sent in one month, and $200 in the second, this may be blackmail, of course, it cannot be said for sure. • Distribution of funds

If we see that the wallet owner sends large amounts of money to another wallet irregularly and chaotically, then we can assume that he is poisoning the distribution of funds between his wallets.

• Premium Bitcoin Mixer

Bitcoin Mixer - 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 up 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 translation of a particular user.

An illustrative example of the mixer

If you see that during 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 of scammers, hackers, blackmailers, etc.

Bitcoin Abuse

This is the most popular Bitcoin Wallet complaint service, the service allows you to leave a tag and write your own review.

Checkbitcoinadress

Shows the balance in euros, dollars and BTC, finds a possible owner, mentions on the Internet and forums, as well as other information. And of course, it shows complaints, tags and countries, of the person who complained.

Trace

In principle, the service is no different from the first, but there may be complaints that are not in other reviews

I won’t go on listing the rest of the reviewers, as there are a lot of them. You can find them with a corresponding query on Google.

We check the wallet for suspicious activity and "dirty money".

Services showing the scoring of a bitcoin wallet will help us with this.

Scoring is a rating system that helps credit institutions predict the payment discipline of a person applying for a loan.

I use the AMLBot service the most . The service shows the trust score and describes the activity of the crypto wallet in a detailed report based on its own algorithms.

Of the pluses, there is the fact that all this is in the form of a Telegram-Bot, and of the minuses, the service is paid.

Well, if you are not ready to pay money for scoring, then BitRank is for you. This service will show you the trust score without registration and payment. Of course, there will not be a detailed description of the activity of the crypto wallet, but there will be an estimate from 0% -100%.

Search on the Internet

What will you do first when faced with the task of finding the owner of a BTC Wallet? That's right - google it.

As a result, you will be able to get mentions on forums, mentions on websites, perhaps someone left a wallet as payment details, or donations.

It is better to use different search engines, especially the ones listed below.

Yandex - Most likely, you will get more Russian websites as a result. Google - More results with foreign web resources. DuckDuckGo - Resources will be available, with the .onion domain zone.

You can also contact Bing, Yahoo, Swisscows, etc.

For a more efficient search, you can use Google-Dorking.

Google Dorking involves the use of extended operators in the Google search engine to find specific strings of text in the search results.

You can use the banal "BTC wallet" to filter out unnecessary results, or the more advanced, but still banal "BTC wallet" site: The site of interest, this will help determine the involvement of the site you are interested in with the wallet.

Or, you can use more advanced search methods and use this cheat sheet. By clicking on the link you can see 15 thousand Google Dorks intended for BTC-Wallets. Of course, it will take a lot of time to try them all, so you can only use the ones that interest you.

Monitoring of 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 the decrease, increase in the amount of money on this crypto-wallet. So there is a function that will notify about any activity of the crypto-wallet. The service allows you to notify about the action in any way convenient for you. Telegram message, phone call, push notification, etc.

There is also a cryptotxalert service 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 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 contact the professionals, and the evil will be punished!

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