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ILIA HORAK
OSINT Specialist | Due Diligence Analyst | Corporate Intelligence | Risk Intelligence
📍 Ukraine | 📧 [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | 🔗 LinkedIn
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
OSINT Specialist with over two years of experience conducting comprehensive due diligence investigations, corporate intelligence research, and risk assessments for an international consulting company operating under NDA.
Experienced in independently investigating companies, executives, shareholders, business partners, and employment candidates using only company names and registration numbers. Skilled in identifying beneficial ownership structures, hidden corporate affiliations, reputational risks, compliance concerns, and digital footprints across multiple jurisdictions.
Strong analytical mindset with proven ability to rapidly collect, verify, structure, and interpret information from open sources, corporate registries, technical infrastructure, social media, and commercial intelligence platforms. Experienced in delivering analytical reports and actionable recommendations for executive management, legal, HR, compliance, and corporate security teams.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
OSINT Specialist April 2024 – Present
International Consulting Company (NDA)
• Conduct comprehensive Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) investigations on companies, executives, shareholders, business partners, and employment candidates.
• Perform end-to-end investigations independently using only company names and registration numbers.
• Research corporate registries, government databases, court records, sanctions lists, and public records across the EU, USA, UAE, CIS countries, and other jurisdictions.
• Identify beneficial ownership structures, hidden corporate relationships, shell companies, and affiliated organizations.
• Investigate websites and digital infrastructure through DNS analysis, SSL certificates, WHOIS records, hosting infrastructure, historical snapshots, source code analysis, analytics identifiers, and technical attribution methods.
• Conduct Digital Footprint Analysis and Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) using publicly available information.
• Develop behavioral and psychological profiles based on digital activities and publicly available information.
• Perform adverse media screening, reputation analysis, and risk assessments across multiple languages and jurisdictions.
• Build relationship maps between companies, individuals, domains, websites, and digital assets to identify hidden affiliations.
• Support internal corporate investigations related to insider threats, information leakage, conflicts of interest, and employee background verification.
• Identify organizations responsible for coordinated reputational attacks and publication of adverse information targeting client companies.
• Prepare structured analytical reports including executive summaries, findings, risk assessments, and business recommendations.
• Collaborate with Executive Management, Legal, HR, Compliance, and Corporate Security departments to support strategic decision-making.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Prepared hundreds of analytical Due Diligence reports on companies, shareholders, executives, business partners, and employment candidates.
• Successfully identified hidden relationships between companies, domains, and beneficial owners across multiple jurisdictions.
• Assisted Corporate Security in identifying employees involved in unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.
• Identified competitors responsible for coordinated online reputational attacks against client organizations.
• Delivered high-quality intelligence reports under strict deadlines, including expedited investigations completed within 2–3 hours.
• Produced structured intelligence reports containing actionable findings and recommendations for executive-level decision-making.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) • Due Diligence • Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) • Corporate Intelligence • Risk Intelligence • Background Investigations • Corporate Registry Research • Beneficial Ownership Analysis • Digital Footprint Analysis • Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) • Website Infrastructure Investigation • Technical OSINT • Link Analysis • Adverse Media Screening • Reputation Assessment • Geolocation • Reverse Image Search • Fact Verification • Executive Reporting • Analytical Writing
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
OSINT Platforms
• Commercial Telegram OSINT platforms
• Sherlock
• Universal Search
• PimEyes
• Reverse Image Search tools
Technical Investigation
• Censys
• DNSlytics
• SecurityTrails
• Wappalyzer
• crt.sh
• CentralOps
• WHOIS Services
• Wayback Machine
Search & Research
• Google
• Google Dorking
• DuckDuckGo
• Bing
• Yahoo
• Yandex
Corporate Intelligence
• Corporate Registries
• Government Databases
• Court Records
• Public Registers
• Sanctions Databases
• Open Sources
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Excel • Google Sheets • Microsoft Word • Microsoft PowerPoint • SQL (Basic) • Python (Basic) • HTML Analysis • Linux
LANGUAGES
Ukrainian — Native Russian — Native English — B2
EDUCATION
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Bachelor’s Degree in International Economics
2016 – 2021