Meta — Blue Team Labs Online
2 min readJan 9, 2024
- This is a digital forensics lab.
- The mode is easy.
Scenario — The attached images were posted by a criminal on the run, with the caption “I’m roaming free. You will never catch me”. We believe you can assist us in proving him wrong.
Tools used;
- Exiftool
- Reverse Image Search
Download the file,use the password to access the file.
Q. What is the camera model?
- install exiftool, i used a kali vm to run this.These are the steps i followed to install exiftool;
- Download the image-exiftool distribution.
- unpack the distribution gzip -dc Image-ExifTool-12.72.tar.gz | tar -xf -
- make it your current directory by running this command cd Image-ExifTool-12.72
- Test exiftool by running these commands perl Makefile.PL , make test.
- install the tool by running sudo make install
- To see the image details use this command exiftool uploaded_1.JPG
A. Canon EOS 550D
Q. When was the picture taken?
A. 2021:11:02 13:20:23
Q. What does the comment on the first image says?
A. relying on altered metadata to catch me?
Q. Where could the criminal be?
- use a reverse image search to identify the image.I used https://tineye.com/
A. Kathamandu