Below are the two maps side by side for comparison. Following the river in Miri I scanned for a roundabout nearby and was able to quickly locate the area on OSM here. I then navigated to Miri, Malaysia in OSM and began looking for jumping-off points within the user's screenshot. The tweet in which they included the above screenshot mentioned being “in Miri”.Īfter a bit of Google Dorking I was able to determine that "Miri" was likely Miri, Malaysia. In our above example, we can see that the user posted a screenshot of their game while on the overworld map. Instead, I highly recommend looking at neighboring posts by the user to see if they mention a city or post photos of nearby Pokéstops or Pokémon gyms. Using just the overworld map itself without anything else will make it near impossible to locate the specific area. When trying to compare the game’s overworld map to real life it is imperative that you have additional information to help narrow down your area. Instead, we are going to analyze the map itself to narrow down a user’s location at the time of the screenshot.Īs Pokémon GO utilizes OpenStreetMaps (OSM), this should be your main mapping reference as the routes, buildings, and other mapped information should be near identical between the two. The overworld map may also display the player’s username in the lower-left corner, however we are going to cover that later on in the second section of this guide. Much of the game mechanics revolve around the overworld map in which the player’s avatar walks on a map rendered to replicate the real-world locations that the user is in. Although users can take a screenshot of any in-game action I will only be covering common screenshots which may provide information useable in an investigation. Users are not shy about uploading their screenshots to show off their rare Pokémon, recently visited Gyms, or the map of a new area they visited while on vacation. The most likely way of obtaining information on a Pokémon GO user would come from their in-game screenshots uploaded to another social media platform. The second portion of the guide will focus on ways to exploit information from accounts that users have befriended in-game. This first section will focus solely on exploiting the different types of screenshots that Pokémon GO players commonly post to social media.
This OSINT guide will be split up into two sections.
Investigators may exploit such publicly obtainable information from a user’s screenshots on social media or by adding them as a friend in the game in order to gather additional intelligence. As the game relies heavily upon user location for playing there is a wealth of location-based information that the game utilizes to display specific points of interest on the over world map. Released in July 2016, Pokémon GO quickly became one of the most popular games of all time with millions of users spread all over the world.
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