Maltego transforms for Hunchly Hunchly Maltego Setup Guide
Revision: 1.1
Date: April 19, 2021 Author: Justin Seitz
Contact: support@hunch.ly
The Hunchly Maltego transforms are local transforms. As Paterva puts it, local transforms are trickier to deploy than remote transforms and require additional setup.
There is a video detailing these steps you can view here: https://support.hunch.ly/article/47-1-using-the-hunchly-maltego-transforms
Download Python 3.8 or newer if you don't have it:
Windows: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Mac OSX: https://www.python.org/downloads/
Linux: run this command in the terminal
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip
Download the Hunchly transforms from here and decompress the zip file:
https://www.hunch.ly/resources/maltego-hunchly.zip
In the python folder there is a file named config.py. Open this file with a text editor and change the location of the HunchlyAPI. Here are the common paths on most systems:
hunchly\_api\_path = "C:\\Program Files (x86)[\\Hunchly](//Hunchly/) 2\\Dashboard\\HunchlyAPI.exe"
hunchly\_api\_path = "/Applications/Hunchly2.app/Contents/MacOS/HunchlyAPI"
hunchly\_api\_path = "/usr/lib/hunchly/HunchlyAPI"
Now we need to import the Hunchly Maltego configuration file. From the Maltego menu select Import -> Configuration
Browse to the hunchlyconfiguration.mtz file that is provided in the zip file download. Follow the directions to import all Hunchly entities, transforms and the single Hunchly machine.
Now that the configuration is imported we need to configure the location for each of the Python scripts. This is a pain in the arse, but there is no other automatic way of doing it.
Click on the Transforms ribbon and then click the Transform Manager button.
In the new dialog type in hunchly to filter to only show the Hunchly transforms.
Select the first transform in the list and then click the … button beside the Working Directory option. Here you need to specify the location of where the Hunchly Maltego transforms are. This is the location of the decompressed zip file you downloaded.
Once you have put the correct path in, I suggest you copy the path to your clipboard so that you can paste it in place for each transform.
Work your way down the list of Hunchly transforms and set the path for each of them.
The simplest way to get started is to drag a Hunchly case onto your Maltego graph, and set its name to match a case name in your Hunchly database. You can then run transforms against it or run the "Hunchly Full Case Extraction" machine which will pull all of the information for a case into your graph.