#OSINT
Thread π§΅1/11:
β οΈ A fake French Ministry of Armed Forces website was taken down today.
was claiming to be recruiting 200,000 French people to go to fight in
#Ukraine
.
It also stated on the website:
*LES IMMIGRΓS SONT PRIORITAIRES (immigrants willβ¦
Thread π§΅2/11:
The domain name was purchased on 15 March 2024.
Only 24 hours after Macron's speech on French TV, he said on 14 March 2024: βIf the situation were to deteriorate, we must be ready and we will be readyβ
If we look at the creation date andβ¦
Thread π§΅4/11:
Hostwinds LLC πΊπΈ is the hosting provider (as indicated by the name servers).
nserver:
nserver:
The nameservers point to the servers where the actual website content resides.
Hostwinds LLC is a Seattle-based webβ¦
Thread π§΅5/11:
The website was frozen today and taken down by
@Hostwinds
, probably following a complaint from the French Government.
We now get taken to a new URL -->
By manipulating the URL to --> , we can see an email address -->β¦
Thread π§΅6/11:
Some interesting information in the source code.
Notice how the work on the website is always within the same timeframe, always in the afternoon.
Domain Name purchase date and time: 2024-03-15 15:29:04
Domain Name update date and time:β¦
Thread π§΅7/11:
The images on are renamed in French, meaning the entity who created the website worked hard not to leave any traces in their own language.
For example, the image of "Capitaine Paul" is under the title smaller_avatar.jpeg onβ¦
Thread π§΅8/11:
The page on joining the French Special Forces was easy to detect as a complete fake!
It states: "Under military status, your specialty consists of gathering intelligence via special interventions behind Russian lines".
The salary being offered is 9000β¬ (grossβ¦
Thread π§΅10/11:
No emails are visible on the website, legal mentions, cookies policy, conditions, and confidentiality pages were copied from the real website .
But there is 2 contact forms that surely go to the entity behind this fake website.
#OSINT
Thread π§΅11/11:
First account to post about it on X is a French account.
I used advanced search with the dorks and exact phrase "" and then sorted from most recent to oldest.
#OSINT