🔭OSINT

First category is OSINT. What is OSINT?. OSINT is open source for collection data and analysis. For this category, it needs skill like information gathering, stalking and basic understanding on how open source tools works.

Example of OSINT tools, Google, Yandex (image), waybackmachine and etc.

Dig Up The Past

When open the link given, there is nothing much on the website. But in the question, it mention machine to dig up the past. The tools is waybackmachine.

Solving this challenge quite straight forward. Using waybackmachine to find the flag.

Both timeline appear to have this flag.

FLAG : FSECSS{y0u_g0t_m3}

Mastery Socket

For this challenge, it given image file. The question mention about name of country as the flag. Let figure out using OSINT (image).

Upload using google image. Find similar type of image.

FLAG : FSECSS{Israel}

Container

For this question, we need to find year of manufacturing. After download the image, try to reverse image using google image and Yandex, but it return nothing.

Next, let check container tracker database since in image, it given some information about it.

With the information given, we can get the flag.

FLAG : FSECSS{Jul_2004}

Easy Peasy

Let download the image.

We need to figure out which country this. Based on this image, I can do reverse image search by word then translate it. After that, I can know which country this image belonging.

It detects Bengali language. That mean this image from Bangladesh

FLAG : FSECSS{Bangladesh}

Find Your Way Back (Quite hard)

For this question, it quite hard since there is no much information I know about (at that time). After download the image, I try really hard to find owner of this image until I forgot the basic way which is metadata… HMMM..

To find who owner of this image, we can check it metadata and looking into author.

We know the author of this image. Back to the question, it mentions social media and been deleted. That’s mean, we need to find which social media and wayback machine to find secret.

I use old school method which try and error for each social media. After few try and error, it appear to be twitter/sudo_enc.

Same image as provided. Let using wayback machine to find secret.

We go the flag.

FLAG : FSECSS{w4y_b4ck_1n_t1m3}

Detective

This is last challenge for OSINT. The question mention about username and social media. So let figure out using oldschool method. HAHAHA.

We found this social media. For this question, I need to do it using my phone due to forgotten password.

I always check the profile picture. Luckily, I found piece of flag.

For the next flag, im looking into it comment, it appear to have morse code. After decode it, it return to first flag which in profile. After that, looking into tagged for any other information.

Oh oh, another piece of flag. Let combine it and submit the flag.

FLAG : FSECSS{345y_p345y}