CTF Challenge Walkthrough: File Metadata

Marcelle Lee
4 min readDec 17, 2018
dollz.jpg

This is the second in my series of cyber competition challenge walkthroughs. As I’ve mentioned previously, Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions are not just fun but also an excellent way to learn. In this post, we will step through finding metadata (data about data) in a file I created called dollz.jpg.

The challenge questions were:

  • What was the make of the camera?

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Marcelle Lee

Security researcher, educator and business owner in the field of cybersecurity. Advocate of diversity in tech. https://marcellelee.github.io