[Intro][PwnMe 2023][OSINT] Social Media Goes Brrrr

Introduction This challenge is an OSINT challenge from the PWNME CTF. Context explanation John Droper is a Franco-British individual who leaves an enormous digital footprint. (Note: He speaks both English and French, and some information can only be found through one of these languages.) Directive You have to find one of his main social media Solution So here we only have one information about the person, his name. So we will have to search for it on the internet....

May 7, 2023 · 1 min · HitCat

[Easy][PwnMe 2023][OSINT] Newbie Dev

Introduction This challenge is an OSINT challenge from PWNME CTF. Context Explanation To understand the context of the challenge, refer to the introduction challenge description. Task As a budding developer, find information about this undeveloped passion. Solution On John Droper’s Facebook profile, we can see that he has a username: jdthetraveller. We keep this in mind for later. On his feed, we have information about his username. He says that he chose it on AFNIC, which is a domain name registry solution....

May 7, 2023 · 2 min · HitCat

[Medium][PwnMe 2023][OSINT] French Dream

Introduction This challenge is an OSINT challenge from the PWNME CTF. Background explanation To understand the context of the challenge, look at the description of the introductory challenge. Directive John is French-English but lives in France, and his life is almost entirely available on the internet. Find the city where he lives, the username of his current girlfriend, and the maiden name of his ex. OSINT must remain passive, and any interaction is strongly prohibited....

May 7, 2023 · 5 min · HitCat

[Medium][PwnMe 2023][OSINT] Europe

Introduction This challenge is an OSINT challenge from the PWNME CTF. Context explanation To understand the context of the challenge, look at the description of the introduction challenge. Directive John loves adventure and travel. Can you give me the 3 cities he visited during his trip to Europe? Flag format PWNME{city1_city2_city3} Cities in lowercase and in alphabetical order, separated by an “_”. Solution On John Droper’s GitHub, droperkingjohn, on one of his commits, we can see that he removed part of his index....

May 7, 2023 · 5 min · HitCat