IMINT (Image Intelligence) and GEOINT (Geospatial Intelligence)

IMINT and GEOINT are types of OSINT to reveal desired information from analyzing images.

Basic Investigation

open example.jpg
exiftool example.jpg

Gather Information From Search Engine

Search the keyword which is found in the image.

• Name

• Location (country, city, etc.)

• When does it open

Reverse Image Search

Upload the image in each search engine.

• Bing Images

• Google Images

  Click the “Search by image” icon and upload the image.

• Yandex Images

Video (mp4) Geolocation

FFmpeg extracts every single frame from a video.

# -i: input file
# %06d: followed by six digits e.g. img_000001.png, img_000002.png, etc.
# -hide_banner: hide unnecessary text.
# -r: frame rate (e.g. 1 frame per second)
ffmpeg -i example.mp4 -r 1 img_%06d.png -hide_banner