Data Points

🚗 Vehicle Identification Number

🔗 Analyst pivots

🔍 Lookup

📜 Playbook — Vehicle Identification Number exploitation

1. Direction — frame the requirement for Vehicle Identification Number: what decision does this support, by when?
2. Collection — pull the 0 mapped sources (0 free) and the native workbench; capture provenance and observe OPSEC.
3. Processing — normalize, de-duplicate and enrich the collected data.
4. Analysis — correlate against local holdings; apply ACH; assign confidence.
5. Dissemination — open a case, draft a report, share via STIX/MISP.
6. Feedback — set an alert rule / watchlist to monitor for change.

⚡ AI Skills & Automation

Automate unattended via the cron pipeline (collect → ingest → resolve → enrich → score → alert).

🗃 Data Management

🧩 Advanced Capabilities

✨ Enrichment pathways

🎫 Vehicle Identification Number

A Vehicle Identification Number is a 17-character globally unique code encoding a vehicle's manufacturer, attributes and serial. VINs matter in investigations of stolen-vehicle export rings, cloning/re-VINing fraud, sanctioned-goods diversion and asset tracing.

Format: 17 chars, excludes I/O/Q. Positions 1-3 WMI (manufacturer), 4-8 VDS (attributes), 9 check digit (ISO 3779 mod-11, transliteration weights), 10 model year, 11 plant, 12-17 serial.

📡 How it is collected

• Physical VIN plate / dashboard / door-jamb photographs
• Vehicle registration and title databases
• Customs export/import (bill of lading) records
• Insurance and salvage-auction listings
• Dealer/marketplace listings
• Toll and ANPR-linked records

📚 Enrichment & validation sources

🔗 Pivot to

🧩 Analysis & hunting techniques

• Check-digit validation to detect fabricated VINs
• WMI decode to verify claimed make/plant/year
• VIN-cloning detection via duplicate registrations
• Re-VIN / plate-swap pattern analysis
• Salvage-to-active resurrection tracing
• Export-route reconstruction via BL data
• Model-year (position 10) consistency check

🔧 Tools

• NHTSA vPIC
• NICB VINCheck
• vPIC API
• ImportYeti
• Maltego
• OpenCorporates

⚡ Workbench actions

• Validate VIN check digit
• Decode WMI/VDS/year/plant
• Check theft & salvage records
• Detect cloned/duplicate VINs
• Trace export via bill of lading
• Screen owner against watchlists
• Link to plate & registration

📊 Dashboard KPIs

📂 Open