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The Watcher's Gaze
The Watcher’s Gaze
- Category: [OSINT]
- Author: [Akshitha]
Challenge Description
Go through a variety of open source data and find out the observer’s den. Follow lyra’s trail but beware do not get caught. All you need is right infront of your eyes, just know where to look.
Solution
Initial Analysis
Build up a narrative, look at various social media platforms, come up with a cohesive plot that built on the story.
Tools Used
- Metadat2go
- Github
- Google docs
Step-by-Step Solution
Step 1: The Image
The binary numbers are decoys, they dont point to anything important
Things to dedue:
i. Bottom right: Instagram account (hinted by the purple/ blue colour scheme) @LC_HOURGLASS
ii. Extracting meta data
We see a hex value (6B011D)
It is a part of the flag, to be noted and kept
Step 2: The Instagram account
The bio points to a username (Caellum-Archivist)
Upon inspection of the post caption, the last line has weird capitalization
In the word gift notice only capital letters (GIT)
Step 3: The github
In the old haven archive
90210 points to a famous los angeles pincode
The reset attempts are dummies
Shes-gone-and-its-just-me-repo:-
Multiple access_gate decoys so even if we want to get password from code it takes a little bit of time
README points to a link
Enter the CITY NAME
Code- losangles/la
Step 4: The Google Doc
The information is all filler
Location coordinates of the picture point to
Griffith Observatory : 34.1184° N, 118.3004° W
Rest of the text is white and revealed when selected
Time: 12:47 + 3mins+ 1 sec 12:50:01
Piece together final flag from “VITAL DATA”
Flag
1
CYS{341184_125001_6B011D}
Flag
CYS{341184_125001_6B011D}