What is MALTEGO ?

Maltego is an application used to track the target to get information.
Can be seen from some of the explanations below:
Maltego an innovative Toos devoted to the process of gathering information. The process of information gathering which was originally using the classical way as a domain-whois, search-engine, archive, etc. can now be done automatically. Maltego has its own specification method for information gathering process in which already involves the classical methods commonly used previously.
Maltego using the method of 'linkage' between multiple objects. The object is composed of the Domain, IP Address, DNS Name, Website, e-mail, Location, Person, etc.. What do maltego is to describe the corresponding relationships between objects to be searched. Depiction of the relationship process is carried out by a method (plugin) called transform. Transform will find another object that has a relationship with the object sought and describe these relationships in a graphical form. For example: to search all things related to a domain kilkbca.com, then klikbca.com an initial object of the search. Transform will seek other objects associated with objects klikbca.com, for example: finding objects klikbca.com IP Address, IP Netblock owned by klikbca.com, a website owned by klikbca.com, mx records associated with klikbca.com, search person associated with klikbca.com.Of all the results of the transform object, we can also look for other objects. For example: the person of the transform domain can be searched klikbca.com any social network, followed by the person, email address person, the person is associated with any website, etc..By looking at the ability maltego, then the information gathering process will be more easily done even by a layman though. And we can find a weak point which can be used to stab into a target.