The Mole

The Mole
Active since 2018-07-??
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The Mole is a riddle discovered on reddit. A user named Nakano-Anapa posted a long binary post on his profile. There isn't much information about this riddle (or ARG) yet. The original post can be found here:https://www.reddit.com/user/Nakano-Anapa/comments/8wsfst/2036/
Type	Investigation
Creator	UNKNOWN(ZEOT)
Discovered	2018-07-??

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Introduction

This riddle has NO NAME! But people tend to call it MOLE or THE MOLE because of many mole pictures and(or) clues referring to moles. It first appeared on 4chan where a post led to the reddit post of Nakano-Anapa, just as linked in the description. It's a highly cryptic riddle so sometimes it involves codebreaking, information research and steganography. The intention of the creator or the meaning/use of this riddle are unknown yet.

Clue one, THE BEGINNING

On july 7th a reddit post appeared by the user Nakano-Anapa: https://www.reddit.com/user/Nakano-Anapa/comments/8wsfst/2036/

It contained following message:

 Greetings, mole!


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good luck...

explanation

By simply translating the binary code with a binary to text translator, following message appeared: This will seperate the capable users from the unnecessary ones. Everything you will need is written below: qQzsfohbirnu5VGUG8gN92iWYRzIAIgUcZfGHyqDqy1HQKGoc1i0CsLkRci71awepmZLTbkBFo30hrMeAWjWUer7lZ3Yv8L6vsuH/sLtaN68zPWIl/7i6y28M+uIhoVOLTqTi3/ldP1Z2AJ7VlJuV22NoR3MIPEaIqaWdvkmk6aOAivbiS4DRH/z8hx7pHs6d5vtRKWehNdn9aGTtH6R+pu9v0W/Bp0JuA+VIRSIzUhlUAuCbKjwUxEMzAqSXz0SKTNkEgz4IWXrpaVwilixoWn6Vk58aT8kTAQNAXZ3Dv2tSQ/vASgQv+9iqCNp+HptEy0FLSVRRcPrSdvAhV+WKYsqXSYfegh4SiuiJgsl6zTV5TNYOUFYsoUSAdKZzquMc36wGX7L4cfY14XAspfyog==

("separate" was written wrong as "seperate" but this seems to not have any influence on this clue)

By trying out many encryption methods we finally found the right one: GOST.

By decrypting the hash above with the GOST algorhytm in the CBC mode(cipher blockchaining) we got following message:

The first riddle you have to solve will introduce you to Jhon Titor. Find out what he did and where he appeared.

Pay attention to Mel Reckling's first reply, check the letters. Maybe you will find the way. let me give you a hint: ______________.jimdofree.com

DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THE FUTURE.

Clue 2, JOHN TITOR

John Titor was the nickname of a person who claimed to be a time traveller from 2032 who appeared on the artbell forums back in 2001.(bbs.artbell.com)[server is down so use the wayback machine][1]

This clue was all about research. To find the answer you had to find Mel Reckling's reply on John Titor's post at the end of page 2. As the text itself gave no useful information you had to check Nakano-Anapa's message of the previous clue. [check the letters] By taking all the capital letters together and adding a ".jimdofree.com" behind it you found a working link to a website.

https://futurejohniwtttaudtc.jimdofree.com/ On this webpage you can see a picture of John Titor's time travell divison insignia. As well there is a text written which says: what was he searching for?

Inspecting this webpage you can find a link.

https://thinfi.com/3svh

This link is password protected. The password clue is the "what was he searching for?" text from the previous website. The answer is IBM5100 as John Titor was searching for this computer.

This link leads you to this forum: http://3htz4556hfz.boards.net/

Clue 3/THE FORUM

Now we arrived at the forum where ZEOT(likely the creator) posted several clues. The first post was: http://3htz4556hfz.boards.net/thread/3/comment. Nothing important was found there.

dig dig dig

The next post which actually introduced us to the new puzzle was: http://3htz4556hfz.boards.net/thread/6/spread-out-moles. The post shows us a picture of a mole and three words. "DIG DIG DIG" The "DIG DIG DIG" was a clue to tell us that we have to dig(get inside, research) the picture, so we decided check the "HEX-CODE" of the picture. We indeed found something.

 A link and a message: We DO NOT recommend to download from this site as this site got taken over by malware lately! https://www.file-upload.net/en/download-13222606/DIGDIGMOLE.txt.html and this message: remember fzzerfzquwnn1834662j 

Clue 4/DIGDIGMOLE.txt

By opening this txt document we've found this text:

 



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This puzzle seems like gibberish on the first view with random words such as: "suicide" "instinct" etc. But as we looked closely we saw "two dots", "one dash" and "one slash".

After thinking a while you found a similarity with the https://futurejohniwtttaudtc.jimdofree.com/ link from the previous clue. So after analyzing the text carefully we found out that there was a pattern, the ENIGMA pattern.

The ENIGMA was a german encryption machine out of WW II. By shifting letters up and down or rotating their position they could encrypt this message. The patter started from the middle of the text and started as: "1(letter) down, 2up, 3down, 4up, 5down, 6up...and so on but it's important to know that when the pattern reached the top it still counted up, just by ending at the top and counting the rest of number from the bottom up.

So now we found this link, a slighty different version of the previous one: https://futurejohniwtttaudtc.jimdofree.com/secure-area

Of course as expected this link is tricky again. A password is required, but as we noted all the previous clues and messages we tried our "remeber fzzerfzquwnn1834662j" code and we inserted it there. Pretty easy so now a text popped up.

Clue5/THE SECURE AREA)

After inserting the codes the secure area opened and we found following message:

 

TIME, TIME ALWAYS SHOWS US THE TRUTH.

We finished our primary test. Now the hunt continues in the real world.

Seek for the moles. Soon they will appear on the surface.

As a little present I will tell you my name.

Call me ZEOT. We will meet again...

We haven't found any clue or hidden message in this so we assumed that we will find something in the real world, because the text told us that the hunt continues in the real world.

AFter waiting a long time amd checking the forum frequently for new information we finally got an update. This post was created: http://3htz4556hfz.boards.net/thread/8/first-mole-arrived. This confirmed our theory that something was happening out there. But still this got us not much information until the admin posted several coordinates. After several days a new post appeared: http://3htz4556hfz.boards.net/thread/10/ Three coordinates were shown, Hongkong(CHINA), Seoul(SOUTH KOREA) and Seattle(USA).