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OSINT(Exercise 23)

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OSINT
Victor Mwai
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Victor Mwai

Security Analyst || CTF player

Isaiah 6:8

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Exercise 23
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For this challenge, we are required to find the details of the photo used as wallpaper as indicated in the task briefing below.

Sometimes online footage contains more information than meets the eye. In October 2023, I uploaded a video to my YouTube channel where, for a split second between minute 3 and 4, my desktop wallpaper is partially visible.

**Your task is to:**  
a) Find the title of the illustration, as given by the artist.  
b) Find how much it would cost for the artist to create a similar piece, in size and detail.

Here is the link to the youtube page. From the task briefing, we are told the video was uploaded on October 2023 and for a split second between minutes 3 and 4, the desktop photo was partially visible. With this information, it was quite clear we are required to play with the , and . on the youtube video as this symbols help in moving the video ahead or behind by a frame, that is the ,moves the video behind a frame and .moves the video ahead by a frame.

Watching the video from minute 3 to 4 while adjusting the frames, I was able to identify the wallpaper as shown below.

At 3 minutes and 38 seconds,we are able to identify the partial wallpaper image after adjusting the frames with .to move the video ahead.

Find the title of the illustration, as given by the artist
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Below is the image we are required to find the title of the illustration.

We can do a reverse image search of the image and see what results, we shall get.

As seen above, we have been able to identify the exact image, we can follow the link and see what is the title of the image.

We have been able to identify the illustration but we have to verify if that is truly the title of the illustration, as we have the name Adam-Scythe,we can search for the name and see if we can find our image.

As shown above, this was the result after searching for the artist at DeviantArt with the name Involuntary Rat Queen and we have been able to verify that trully Adam-Scythe is the artist behind the art and the name of the illustration Involuntary Rat Queen.

Answer: iNvoluntary Rat Queen

Find how much it would cost for the artist to create a similar piece, in size and detail
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For this section, I decided to search for prices of the arts by Adam-Scythe on DeviantArt profile of his and got the following details and the price for the image that is similar to the one we found.

As seen above, we have been able to find the details of the prices for images in the same class as ours.

Answer:$190

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