OSINT Notes

Osint Advent2024 Day 6

Sixth day, December 6th

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Let’s find this mysterious companion of Saint Nicholas. Go to wikipedia and find the link to the “Companions of Saint Nicholas” article

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English version of the article is poor, let’s check other languages. French one looks the best. Turn on the translation plugin in browser to be able to make text search:

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There are no words like knight or armor on this page, but we find the ‘horse’ pattern there

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Looks like we need to check Hans Trapp. Open the article about him and see the tower image on the right of the page.

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It’s called “Little France”, check the Wikipedia page about it and find the german name of this castle - Klein-Frankreich

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And this is the correct answer

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The next step is to find the names of two saints engraved on the Hans von Trotha’s stone. Googling “Hans von Trotha’s stone” doesn’t give us anything.

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Text search by ‘saint’ in pdf gives us several results, and one of them is the required one

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So, Simon and Jude is the correct answer!

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Used tools and services

  • Wikipedia
  • Google Text Search
  • Translation plugin in browser (or the standard option of your browser)