In this video, we're taking a look at Exif tools and it can be found at Exif tools.
Now, Exif Tools is a program that takes a look at the metadata of photos.
Now.
During your investigations.
If you find photos, those photos might hold key information that might help your investigation.
And also Trace Labs.
Linux does have some access tools built in pre-installed on the virtual machine, but we're taking a
look at the online tool that can help with this.
This one makes a pretty easy to use because it is online.
We can upload a file or we can upload a URL for it to scan.
So let's take a quick look at it.
So.
Again, say, for example, we have a photo that we want to take a look at.
So we have the photo already pre-installed.
We're going to just click on browse here and then I'm going to choose a photo.
And then I'm going to click on upload file.
Now, once it finishes scanning, we can take a look at some basic information on it.
We can see the file type is a PNG file.
We can see the file size.
We could see the file name.
The modification date as change time file permission.
We can see the file type is a PNG file.
We can see the image width and height bit depth color type compression filtering.
We can see the software was Adobe image ready Xmp Toolkit.
Adobe Xmp core.
We can see the version number creator tool instance ID, document ID, et cetera.
ET cetera.
So again, this gives a lot of information about the particular photo.
Likewise, if this was, say, on a iPhone, we might potentially be able to get information that was
from an iPhone or if there was geolocation data associated with it.
Say someone took a photo with their smartphone, didn't turn off the geolocation information on it.
We might be able to get that information too, which could be really handy.
Say that we're trying to track someone down.
They take a photo, they upload to social media.
We could do certain things like do a reverse image search, potentially find out where that photo was
taken, or even better, if we get lucky and they left that geolocation on on the phone, they take
a photo, we could use this, potentially find the GPS coordinates where that photo was taken also.
So again, a pretty easy tool to use and it is Exif tools.
And if I go back here, we can also paste a URL in here to do the same thing.
If there's a photo we find online, we don't want to grab the photo.
For some reason we can put the URL in there and run a same type of scan.
So pretty easy.
Another alternative to take a look at Exif data.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.