OSINT is an art

This seems interesting. We need to find out the name of this thing on google maps. This is related to OSINT (Opensource Intelligence). It could have been steganography but as it says the flag is just the name of this thing. Thus, we know it’s OSINT

In order to find more information about this image. The first step I thought was to examine the EXIF data of the image, Maybe I could find the coordinates, where this picture was taken.

Sadly, there were no coordinates. Hence, we need to find another way.

Then I did a google reverse search using google lens. We can search using an image.

Sadly, out of all the matches, all I found was a yellow wall.

Then I cropped the picture pointing towards the statue and tried to find out.

The second row's first result kind of grabbed my attention but when I visited the link it was Little Rock in Arkansas and the statue was different. Hence it was a dead end.

I kept looking at many search results but nowhere I could find the same statue.

Then, I tried the crazy thing of scanning this face on the wall.

But all the search results were nothing but wall bruises.

I know it will sound weird but to me, this face was looking like a character from ed edd n eddy cartoons.

Here’s how ed looks.

Don’t you think there is some kind of similarity? XD

After searching for some time about a statue in Ed, Edd n Eddy, I found out that it is a dead end as well.

Now I only had the option to search for other things in the picture but sadly there weren’t any left except this one pattern.

This was a pattern in the border which I ran a scan on.

The second result kind of looked really similar. So I opened the image.

Now I ran the scan on this image.

The second result is the exact building and it says Santa Justa lift Lisbon.

So, I went to google maps and search this santa justa lift

Now I went to see the photos so I could find the one we were given and find the statue.

Luckily a person, uploaded this photo of the guardian of the Santa Justa and it’s the exact same statue we were looking for.

Hence, I confirmed the name of the place is Santa Justa Lift as shown on google maps.

So,

The flag was: Santa Justa Lift