Echoes in Stone

Personal Rating: Medium

This OSINT challenge was very easy in principle, but getting the flag right was difficult for me. We are presented with an image and some macOS metadata:

Challenge Requisites

I focused on the image metadata for way too long. It did not contain anything relevant to the challenge. Using exiftool also yielded to interesting information.

Google reverse image search could be used to easily identify what the cross on the image is about:

HTB{Muiredach_Cross} was wrong, so I kept searching. In the end, my CTF partner just told me that the full name was Muiredach High Cross, so this was the flag:

HTB{Muiredach_High_Cross}