Orkla: Dragon Con Detective

I’m thrilled to be a participant in Kase Scenarios Orkla: Dragon Con Detective! This is a scenario where you will harness your OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) skills to dive into images, audio, and analytical thinking to solve the challenges assigned to you through text-prompted tools.

The objectives of this scenarios is:

• Visually extracting key data points from an image or a video
• Apply basic tools and resources to answer contextual questions
• Practice critical thinking and your analytical skills

I believe you will enjoy my walkthrough and the methodology I used to uncover the challenges.

Kindly go to the Kase Scenarios website to register for the course.

I’ve never seen an osint challenge in a interactive way

The screenshot above continues to compel us with different instructional words and tasks to accomplish.

Are you an OSINT enthusiast? You’ll love this challenge.

Let’s go!

The first scenario is loading…

Wow!, This is cool but pretty chitty-chat.

Using the code WWWH to solve this scenario, think of it as Where, Who, What, and How.

• Where: The Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta
• Who: Dragon Con
• What: Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine Restaurant
• How: Google Maps, ChatGPT

The information above will guide us on how to search for the exact location of the name.

Search for “The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta” on Google Map

That’s orkla location.

About DragonCon:

North American Convention.

How can we delve into this city by searching for nearby restaurants? Let’s prompt ChatGPT.

Wow!

ChatGPT prompted us a link to search for Coca-Cola Freestlye Machine.

Search for “Westin Peachtree”

Are you feeling good?

That’s a list of freestyle machine we have in Atlanta, Georgia.

Copy the text then search on google.

We got this!

That’s the name of the restaurant, if you have any doubt about it. click here!

Let’s do it one more time!!!

We need to listen to the audio.

What do you think about the three words: “Outgoing Bingo Skip”.

If you can’t hear the audio very well kindly read the transcribe on this website.

Let’s prompt ChatGPT for clues on finding the secret meet up place.

Yes boss!, We got this.

Let’s go to the website and search for the words.

What do you think about this scenerios?

I’m ready bring more.

Yep!

We’ll use the power of GEOINT. I have provided a clue on what to search for: ‘Baker St.’ Before that, let’s upload the image to Google Lens to determine the state where the image was taken.

Atlanta

Now, It’s time to search for “Baker St NW, Atlanta” on google map.

Welcome to Baker St NW.

Click on this link to have same view.

That’s the statue, What about the name?

Go through this link and take a screenshot of the statue then use google lens to search for the statue.

We move!

You’ll find the answer on this website.

I hope you find this insightful.

Another One.

This is easier download the image and scan it with google lens.

Click on the highlighted image.

Hmmm!

We have a new link to search for bib number.

Let’s go to the website and search for the bib number and the year of the marathon event.

This is for the year 2019.

But the marathon year for the guy is 2017.

2017

Now change the year 2017

Let’s see what you get.

Here we go!!!

Now search for the bib number then take a sip of coffee.

Congratulations!!!

Thank you Kase Scenarios

That’s the end of the Orkla: Dragon Con Detective, see you next time.

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