OSINT At Home #2: 5 Easy Methods to Reveal EXIF & Metadata in Photos & Videos 📸

This tutorial is part 2 of the OSINT At Home series. It covers five ways to find the metadata/exifdata in an image or video.

Metadata is the key of clues when it comes to images, videos, documents or any other file type for that matter. This day and age, it is increasingly rare to come across a full packet of metadata. But in case there is a wide spread of information such as who created it, where it was made and when it was made, it’s good to know some basic ways to check for that attached information.

This tutorial does not cover the full extent of how to look up exif and metadata, but if you’re new to the topic, it will hopefully help.

NOTE: Don’t forget the disclaimer I put at the end of this video, that metadata is able to be manipulated, so it is good to cross-reference that information with other information from alternative sources to make sure it is verified and valid.

The OSINT At Home series is useful for those looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up some methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when.

TOOLS MENTIONED
PROPERTIES/INSPECTOR: MAC: Tools - Inspector. WINDOWS: Properties - Details
JEFFREY’S IMAGE METADATA VIEWER: http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
YOUTUBE METADATA VIEWER: https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/
EXIF VIEWER PRO: https://exifviewers.com/
EXIFTOOL: https://exiftool.org/

MORE RESOURCES
https://www.aware-online.com/en/retrieving-exif-data-from-a-wordpress-website/
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/obtain-valuable-data-from-images-using-exif-extractors-0195471/

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CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
MUSIC INTRO: World’s Fair – God Mode
MUSIC END: Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400003
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
FOOTAGE: Therry_FX/Shutterstock.com/ Alexander Steam/Shutterstock.com
FOOTAGE FROM SYRIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXNxKAotKSw
FOOTAGE FROM MYANMAR: Myanmar Army via AP: https://apnews.com/article/c8f628c535da565ab3d45b7905d1acaf