DIVER OSINT CTF 2026 "evacuation" Writeup

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Challenge

DIVER OSINT CTF 2026 “evacuation”

Solution

I opened the provided article and used Chrome Developer Tools to inspect the information associated with the photo. Its caption read VanDenBerg, a district operations manager with WPX Energy, speaks on Thursday to families who evacuated their homes after a fire at an oil production site broke out. This indicated that the photo showed a manager briefing residents.

I tried the Wayback Machine and other methods to find the image, but had no luck, so I looked for other articles covering the same incident. Using the article title as an image search query revealed that the photo was still available in Google search results. I could not establish a match with the image filename on Google, but inferred which image the challenge referred to from the caption.

Another caption in the article mentioned Bloomfield hotel, indicating a hotel in Bloomfield, a town near Nageezi. Searching Google Maps turned up two hotels, and the exterior walls of one of them, Best Western Territorial Inn & Suites, matched those in the photo.

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