CASE STUDY 001 · OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE

OhSINT Investigation

Completed

A guided OSINT investigation into image metadata, public-source correlation and information disclosure risk.

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Case study

Summarized observations from the documented lab. No private logs or tenant identifiers are included.

Check	Recorded result	Evidence status
Image metadata inspection	GPS-related fields identified in XMP-exif using ExifTool	Observed
Challenge completion	7 of 7 questions completed with coaching	Completed
Wireless SSID lookup	Result supplied by coach; not independently confirmed	Limited
Blue Team controls	Detection, prevention and verification criteria proposed; not deployed	Proposed

READ-ONLY COMMAND USED IN LAB

exiftool -a -G1 -s '-GPS*' '.\image.jpg'

Used Windows, PowerShell and ExifTool to inspect a challenge image, identify XMP-exif GPS-related metadata and correlate public information.

Completed all seven TryHackMe questions with coaching. A Wi-Fi SSID observation was supplied by the coach and was not independently verified.

Documented investigative limitations and proposed defensive controls for image-publishing workflows. Those controls have not been deployed or tested.

Distinguish observed evidence from inference; inspect EXIF and XMP; avoid overstating verification.