What is Pandora Search?
A link-analysis tool for open-source investigation that runs in the browser. You start from one data point (an email, a username, a phone number, a domain, an IP, a URL, a name, a Discord ID, a photo or a document) and Pandora chains open sources, drawing what it finds as a graph, with a map, a timeline, a unified dossier and a table.
Is it legal to use?
Pandora only queries publicly available sources, passively. Whether a specific investigation is lawful depends on its purpose: you need a legitimate reason and a legal basis, especially under the GDPR when the subject is a person. Each case records its declared purpose in the audit log, and the acceptable use policy lists what is not allowed.
Does Pandora show leaked passwords?
No. For a breach it shows the name, the date and the types of data exposed. It does not request or display passwords, hashes or other leaked values, and it never queries infostealer log search engines.
Does it use face recognition?
No. To find the same photo on different accounts it compares a perceptual hash of the image (pHash), which is not biometric data. Generic avatars do not link accounts.
Will the person I investigate be notified?
Collection is passive: no query is meant to reach the person, and the registration checks that would trigger a password-recovery email are switched off.
How do credits work?
Each transform costs credits: 1 for an open source, 5 for a heavy one (sweeps across thousands of sites, dorks, Overpass) and premium sources at their own price. Links you open by hand cost nothing. A quick investigation uses about 50 credits. Plans renew their credits every period. A free account has 3 trial searches that spend no credits and show what they find masked.
Do I need my own API keys?
Not for most sources. A few providers do not allow resale (VirusTotal (public API), Last.fm, osu!, EmailRep (free tier), OpenCorporates (free tier), Shodan (academic membership), Hunter.io); those run with your own key, and then cost 1 credit.
Can I export to Maltego?
Yes. Cases export to GraphML, which Maltego imports with Import › Graph from GraphML and which Gephi and yEd open directly. JSON, CSV, a PNG of the graph and a printable report are also available.