January 5, 2022 2 min to read

Solution of OSINT challenge

CYBERVERSE : Hack Into Your Curiosity

The Challenge

Founder of “@picksar.co” had received death threat messages and has now gone missing. The police need your help to crack the case and trace the blackmailer. He was active on Instagram it seems .

Q1. What is his name ?

Ans. beterbarker

In the following list of Picksar.co , Beter Barker’s account is visible.

Q2. Where did he graduate from?

Ans : nitw

Q3. What is his email-id?

Ans : bbb.me@gmail.com

We got *b.me@gmail.com from the comment section of the 4th post of beterbarker2022.

The first and third star alphabets make the name of a Heart Hacker .

Heart Hacker is Beter Ben Barker(bbb) , it’s mentioned in the Bio of the Insta account .

Q4. Last location ?

Ans : paperfishsushi

Link to post

The last location he was at was “Paperfish Sushi”. You get this location by scanning the QR code in the latest post from Beter Barker account

Q5. What is the password ?

Ans : spiderman_dil_ka_chain

Beter Barker added a coded python program to automate emails on Github. Commit history allows us to see all changes made to a program . Changes that are made to the Password field will also be visible here .

See password in commit history

Q6. Find the flag on his personal website.

Ans: os1nti5fun

From beter barker’s github profile you can find the personal website : https://beterbarker123.netlify.app/

The website is no longer available , but there is a way to go back in time and see how the website looked like , thanks to Wayback Machine link .

Click on January 5, 2022 to get directed to the original website on that date . Here is the final website

Q7. What is flag2 ?

Ans: st@rtis7he3nd

Messaging beterbarker2022 in his DMs would directly give this flag .

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