🌐OSINT Combine (Wildlife)

Participated as k1nomi, finished 4th and solved all of the challenges

Throughout April 2025, OSINT Combine held a CTF competition themed around wildlife. The CTF consisted of 20 challenges, with each covering various topics ranging from geolocation to bird identification.

Challenges

Name	Topic
Getting Started (100 pts)	Reverse WHOIS lookup, Historical WHOIS data
Proper Poppy (100 pts)	Reverse Image Search
Legendary Beasts (200 pts)	Google Dorking
Shadow Fleet (200 pts)	Google Dorking, Vessel information
Proper Poppy II (200 pts)	Google Scholar
Not So Smug Smuggler (200 pts)	Google Search + Analysis
Icy (200 pts)	Google Search + Analysis
Forest Pals (200 pts)	Wayback Machine
Safari Time II (200 pts)	Google Reviews
Sneaky! (200 pts)	Google Dorking, Instagram
Hello Friend (300 pts)	Google Dorking
Busy As A (300 pts)	Reverse Image Search, BlueSky
Get Rotated! (300 pts)	Animal tracking
High Seas (300 pts)	Vessel information
Nocturnal (300 pts)	Image manipulation, Reverese Image Search
Safari Time (400 pts)	Reverse Image Search, Geolocation
Peak Weather (400 pts)	Geolocation, OpenStreetMap, CCTV
Singsong (400 pts)	Bird identification
Falling Fell (500 pts)	OpenStreetMap
Kitty Cats (500 pts)	Metadata, Steganography