Retrieve Mobile Numbers, Email Address of your Facebook friends, using FBI (Facebook Information) tool

Introduction

FBI (Facebook Information) is an OSINT (open source investigation) tool. We will use this tool to retrieve the details of our facebook friend’s like mobile number, email address, others. This tool directly connected to Facebook and it comes preinstalled in CSI Linux. CSI Linux is the new linux for Cyber Forensics and Investigators. This linux is the part of the digital forensic course offered by International Institute of Cyber Security. This tool is completely built-in python programming language.

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Environment

• OS: CSI Linux Analyst
• Kernel version: 5.3.0-26 – generic
• Steps to Install CSI Linux: Click Here

Tool Execution Steps:

• Go to CSI Application Menu, there we have an option called OSINT/Online Investigation, there we can see FBI tool

• Click on FBI option.

• Type help, to find the options.

• Next, we have to generate the access token by providing username and password.

• Here, we generated an access token successfully.
• Now we will use option called to get_data. This option checks the number of friends in our Facebook.

Retrieve Phone Numbers

• Now, choose an option dump_phone. This will retrieve all the phone numbers of our friends, those who added in your Facebook.

• All the data will be stored at this location /opt/output/name.txt

Retrieve Mail IDs

• Now, choose option dump_mail. This will retrieve all the friend’s Mail IDs

• All the data will be stored at this location /opt/output/name.txt

BOT Menu

• In this tool, we have one more option, Bot. In this bot, we have 8 different sub-classifications as we can see in the below picture.

• Here, we see few options to select, an option 4 is accept all friends requests.

• Next, let’s open the Facebook and check whether we see any pending request or not.

•   All the requests are accepted. As we see in above picture.

Conclusion

This tool helps you control your facebook from a CLI, as we saw in the above steps wherein we retrieved our friend’s data by using social network site.