Category: OSINT

Points: 300

Flag: DawgCTF{26847}

Description: Took this photo on a roadtrip a while back and want to go back to this Pizza Hut, but I forgot where it was. Do you think you could find me the ZIP code of the town this was in?

Reverse image search did not help here, so I worked from the scene itself. The image looked like rural America, and after checking with Google AI I found a lead pointing toward the Appalachian Mountains. That pushed the search toward West Virginia.

I used Google Maps to look through rural areas in West Virginia with a 45mph speed limit, then quickly switched to brute force by checking Pizza Hut locations one by one from https://locations.pizzahut.com/wv. The match was 444 Virginia Ave Petersburg, WV 26847, and Street View confirmed it.

That made the ZIP code 26847, which was the flag value.