Type: Challenge
Difficulty: Easy
Tags: Windows, Web
Meta Tags: Walkthrough, Walk-through, Write-up, Writeup
Subscription type: Free
Description:
Are you able to use open source intelligence to solve this challenge?
Room link: https://tryhackme.com/r/room/ohsint
We begin by checking for metadata with exiftool
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[/mnt/…/TryHackMe/CTFs/Easy/OhSINT]
└─$ exiftool WindowsXP.jpg
ExifTool Version Number : 12.52
File Name : WindowsXP.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 234 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2020:09:13 08:40:48+02:00
File Access Date/Time : 2024:09:16 13:56:23+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2020:09:13 08:40:48+02:00
File Permissions : -rwxrwxrwx
File Type : JPEG
File Type Extension : jpg
MIME Type : image/jpeg
XMP Toolkit : Image::ExifTool 11.27
GPS Latitude : 54 deg 17' 41.27" N
GPS Longitude : 2 deg 15' 1.33" W
Copyright : OWoodflint
Image Width : 1920
Image Height : 1080
Encoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size : 1920x1080
Megapixels : 2.1
GPS Latitude Ref : North
GPS Longitude Ref : West
GPS Position : 54 deg 17' 41.27" N, 2 deg 15' 1.33" WFrom the Copyright line the user seem to be OWoodflint.
Googling for this username turns up the following possible social media presence:
- Blog:
https://oliverwoodflint.wordpress.com/ - Github:
https://github.com/OWoodfl1nt - X (Twitter):
https://x.com/OWoodflint
The X/Twitter-account has a profile photo of a cat.
The first tweet contains a BSSID that we could locate
From my house I can get free wifi ;D
Bssid: B4:5D:50:AA:86:41 - Go nuts!
with Wigle.net.
Login and select Basic Search in the View menu. Then search for the BSSID B4:5D:50:AA:86:41.
You may need to zoom out, recenter and zoom in to see more clearly since the map doesn't seem to center around the found area.
You find the answer in the middle entry of the Wigle.net results.
The email address can be found on the people_finder repo on Github.
See above.
The answer can be found on this blog post.
The answer is in white text on the blog post above.
One easy way to see it is to select all text with CTRL + A.
For additional information, please see the references below.

