🎵This is The Greatest PLANNNN🎵

Although for the past few OSINT challenges I have been successful, I have failed two of them in that time. The issue with what I was doing with these challenges was that I didn't know what I needed to use or do. After all, if you are going on a to hike, you would want a map.

https://hacktoria.com/alien-abduction

This was a challenge provided by Hacktoria. I first used Google Lens to search the image up but got nowhere. I then Google dorked "'Broomfield' 'Colorado' 'Alien'" and got a few results. None of these led me to the original URL. I tried this dork: after:2023/4/3 before:2024/1/1. No results leading me to the origin. Maybe I should've google dorked some more, but at that point I gave up. Frustrated, I looked up a walkthrough. I should've looked for tools regarding UFO or alien sightings such as a database. Some people made their google dorks to find what they were looking for. I unfortunately was not in the mindset to write out the correct google dork to lead me to the URL to unlock the flagfile. Though for this challenge, you could have made a google dork to find what your were looking for. The next challenge would be much harder to directly google dork for.  

https://courses.kasescenarios.com/courses/dragoncon

kasescenarios.com/Meetup.m4a

This is a free scenario provided by KASE Scenarios. The words said were outgoing, bongo, and skip. I was struggling for quite a bit on this question. Searching outgoing, bongo and skip without any search operators didn't help. Searching with the ext: operator gave me files with nothing related to the location of the secret meetup of the Sherlock Holmes Fanclub. Searching "'outgoing'" AND "'bongo'" AND "'skip'" AND "'Sherlock Fanclub'" AND "'Dragon Con'" AND "'2024'" got me nothing related to location. I had to find help for this one. Pretty much anything I searched for gave me nothing related to the secret location. Using the clue of using 3 words to find a location, I searched up ''3 words location". What I got was the website what3words.com. Inputting outgoing.bongo.skip I got a Trader Vic's at Atlanta, the city where Dragon Con 2024 took place, more importantly the restaurant where the Sherlock Fanclub's secret meeting took place. 

Good OSINT comes from making a plan to follow, finding where exactly you are stuck and how you got there. Plans get you thinking, and for good OSINT, you need to think.