Can You Find A Users Name, Email, Location Through An Image?
Today I’ll be showing you the potential information available to you based on one image alone.
This challenge provides you with an image and asks you many questions that you can answer with this picture alone and a little research.
What is this user’s avatar of?
Considering we only have an image given to us, in my opinion using exiftool would be the best option to start with. I have already made an article on how to use exiftool.
https://medium.com/@ronak.d.sharma111/finding-location-of-images-using-metadata-d5693f36b4b7
To start off let’s run this simple command.
exiftool WindowsXP.jpg
If you look closely we see that Copyright: Owoodflint, interesting isn't it? This is most likely a username so let’s use another very trustworthy tool called SpiderFoot which I also made an article on.
In SpiderFoot I did a scan based on username “Owoodflint”, the scan came back with a result saying that there is a twitter account under this name.
I decided to search up Owoodflint on twitter and found the account with the avatar.
As we see here the avatar is a picture of a cat.
What city is this person in and SSID?
If we look at this persons Twitter account we see a post.
He provides us with a BSSID, with this information we can go to https://wigle.net/. We then go to advanced search and insert the BSSID.
When you click map you can see that the location is in London which would be the city this user is in. We also see the SSID provided to us which is UnileverWiFi.
What is his personal email address and where did I find it?
SpiderFoot provided us with only the Twitter account but we should also search up the username ourselves, doing this we find a link to his Github.
His email is OWoodflint@gmail.com. Unfortunately the next part of this task was impossible, I was stuck on it for quite a bit before I decided to seek answers, in order to answer the last two questions the WordPress website had to be running which it was not and unfortunately our research ends here. I hope this helped you understand the possible information a person can get from a singular image, if you enjoyed this article please leave a clap or a follow, happy hacking!