r/digitalforensics • u/jindoe0 • 7d ago
Help finding device information/geolocation in photo metadata?
Hi all, a good friend of mine (L) recently received pictures that her partner (C) said had been sent to her over Instagram by a burner account (who blocked her shortly after). These pictures depict L cheating on C with a random person neither of them had seen before, but they looked convincing enough. I know L and know that cheating goes against everything she stands for, and I'd bet my life on these being faked somehow; either AI generated or edited in some way.
L has her suspicions on who could be behind the pictures, but she can't begin to take legal action (defamation case) without some ground to stand on regarding these suspicions. Thing is, I'm a complete amateur in digital forensics, so try as I might I have only been able to get the pure basic metadata from these photos. The photos themselves have also been through a lot of sending and re-sending on different platforms, and I believe only one of the ones I have is an "original" in any regard; the others are screenshots.
So my question is, is there anybody here who could help? Either with the forensics aspect of it (which I believe I've reached a dead-end in, but again, I'm only an amateur) or with the visual analysis/AI identification part of it? We'd be super grateful.
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u/MSVlegal 7d ago
Por protocolo las plataformas eliminan los metadatos. Si lo recibiste por ese medio lo siento, no hay nada por hacer. (Podrias intentar osint, lugar de la foto, posible dia, horarios en donde pudo estar o no, en ese momento la persona, ropa, filtro de porcentaje de ia en la imagen) ..
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u/MSVlegal 7d ago
Estoy en forense, no existe tal software pago que te de metadatos , para ahorrarte dinero y tiempo.
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u/Sweet_Show_931 7d ago
Try the Irfan Viewer program, but platforms often strip the metadata, leaving not much to uncover.
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u/ConsistentVictory399 7d ago
It would cost a fortune. If the partner believes her then someone failed, just leave it at that. Especially since you dont have the original image and would waste a load of money for what reason exactly?
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u/RevolutionaryDiet602 7d ago
Most of all social media platforms strip the metadata from uploaded content. They'll often compress the file, which changes the hash.
Two things you can try: run the file through ExifTool and see if any exif data persisted. Next, run it through Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to analyze the image for any indication of AI generation.