OSINT Sample Exercises
I have experience in OSINT and look to hone my skills through doing sample exercises. Below represent some of my exercises and you can click to see more information.
OSINT Exercise File #4
For this project, I used an exercise from cyber security professional Heath Adam’s Open Source Intelligence Training Course on his Cyber Mentor Youtube channel. In his video, Heath provides three pictures he took with his wife during a trip they took together, and asks a question for each of the photos he gives. For his first photo, he asks “what is the place called?”, the second “What is the name of the hotel he was staying in?” and the third he asks “ What city are they staying in?”. This time I will be breaking up each photo into separate sections to show the work I did to reach the conclusion, checking Heath’s video afterwards to confirm the answers. If my answer was incorrect then I will provide a short explanation as to why I was wrong with my answer.
OSINT Exercise File #3
I used OSINT Exercise #008 by Sofia Santos from Gralhix.com, an OSINT site, for this project. This exercise shows a photo taken from the Chinese newspaper Epoch Times. In this exercise, the following questions are presented: a) What was the audience applauding? b) When was the photo taken? c) What is the name of the venue?
OSINT Exercise File #2
I used OSINT Exercise #006 by Sofia Santos from Gralhix.com, an OSINT site, for this project. In her exercise, she provides a short
introduction briefing that states: On January 19, 2023, a journalist with almost 140k followers on Twitter shared an image of a destroyed vehicle amidst
a large cloud of smoke and fire. The tweet said: “BREAKING: TTP carried out a suicide attack on a police post in Khyber city of Pakistan that killed three Pakistani police officers.” She notes that the event isn’t what is being described, and wants us to verify the statement above.
OSINT Exercise File #1
This is a starter project to practice my OSINT skills by demonstrating my abilities to analyze information about unknown locations. used OSINT Exercise #4 by Sofia Santos from Gralhix.com, an OSINT site, for this project. In her exercise, she asked three questions about this image to answer: What is the name of the resort? What are the coordinates of the island? In which cardinal direction was the camera facing when the photo was taken?