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Favicon Hasher – An Osint Tool

by PranaFlux on 2/21/25, 10:38 AM with 9 comments

• by shumakriss on 2/25/25, 2:24 PM

  An older post on HN regarding favicon role in osint:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774291

  And the linked post on osintme.com:

  https://www.osintme.com/index.php/2025/01/20/the-importance-...

• by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on 2/25/25, 1:29 PM

  Weird. It's exactly what it says, but I don't see how it's useful. I guess a lot of people reuse assets between sock puppet sites?

• by PranaFlux on 2/21/25, 10:38 AM

  This free online tool helps you analyze website favicons and generate various hash formats used by popular search engines and security tools. Enter a domain or URL below to analyze its favicon.

  Seems nice. I've tried a couple examples and compared them to other websites like it, it works better. I don't have a Shodan account so I can't check it works well with it.

  What do you guys think?

• by donatj on 2/25/25, 11:53 AM

  I wish it didn't select the Apple Touch Icon when there was also a favicon