Case Brief
A whistleblower uploaded a photo to a public forum before going dark.
The image itself is unremarkable — but intelligence suggests the
photographer accidentally left identifying information embedded
directly in the file.
Digital images often carry more data than meets the eye. Camera make,
model, GPS coordinates, timestamps, and custom text fields are all
stored inside the file alongside the pixel data. Investigators call
this EXIF metadata. Your job is to extract it.
📎 Evidence File
Objective
Examine the EXIF metadata embedded in evidence.jpg
and find the flag hidden in one of the fields.
The flag follows the format flag{...}.
Recommended: exiftool evidence.jpg (install via
brew install exiftool or
sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl).
Alternatively, any online EXIF viewer works.