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# OHSHINT
By [Siorde](https://github.com/Siorde)
## Description
Agent,
We've got an OSINT challenge for you. We've been tracking a suspect and found that he went on holiday within the UK recently. We've pulled a recent image from the suspect's social media.
Can you take a look and find out the rough location where this image was taken?
## Solution
We have a picture of a lake. It really doesn't help because a reverse search for the image just show a lot of different lake, and it's very hard to define if their is a match.
Instead I went for the metadata with exitfool :
```
$ exiftool image.jpg
ExifTool Version Number : 11.88
File Name : image.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 495 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:08:14 14:06:19+02:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:08:14 15:14:21+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:08:14 14:06:19+02:00
File Permissions : rwxrwx---
File Type : JPEG
File Type Extension : jpg
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Resolution Unit : inches
Artist : ractf{Help I'm stuck in this enterprise Java dev job and I'm slowly deteriorating}
Y Cb Cr Positioning : Centered
GPS Version ID : 2.3.0.0
Description : Lodge North East of Lancaster, England. Big Lake
GPS Latitude : 45 deg 31' 32.65" N
GPS Longitude : 73 deg 35' 55.33" W
Author : Rick Astley
Comment : aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vZW1iZWQvaEZjTHlEYjZuaUE/YXV0b3BsYXk9MSZjb250cm9scz0w
Image Width : 8284
Image Height : 1931
Encoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size : 8284x1931
Megapixels : 16.0
GPS Latitude Ref : North
GPS Longitude Ref : West
GPS Position : 45 deg 31' 32.65" N, 73 deg 35' 55.33" W
```
Their is a location so I looked for it, but it was in Canada. It is a Ubisoft building, so I guessed it was a troll.
I also looked for the base64 comment :
```
$ echo "aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vZW1iZWQvaEZjTHlEYjZuaUE/YXV0b3BsYXk9MSZjb250cm9scz0w" | base64 -d
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hFcLyDb6niA?autoplay=1&controls=0
```
It was a video about todd from Bethesda. So again, a troll.
The last clue I had was the description. I looked for it on google, but I didn't found anything relevent. It seemed that their was no lake in Lancaster, but their is the lake disctrict on the north. I looked at the closest lake : Pine lake, and I felt like it was close to the picture we have. I tried this answer and I was right !
