OSINT Challenge 3 - Shipping

Prompt

Many drop shippers use a specific platform and resell the products using Amazon/Ebay/Etsy and others like it. Navigate linguistic barriers to investigate the process of buying and selling in today’s society.

Answers

Q1 (5 pts) - AliExpress is the Business-to-Consumer equivalent of which international Business-to-Business platform?
Alibaba

Q2 (5 pts) - What is the B2B marketplace for domestic Chinese wholesales?
1688

Q3 (10 pts) - What is the direct URL to interact with the API of the answer for question 2?
https://gw.open.1688.com/openapi/param2/

Q4 (10 pts) - In Chinese, what is the name of the official system used to fund an account connected to Question 2’s API using USD?
Your answer should be written using Chinese Traditional WorldPay

Q5 (10 pts) - What is the name of the unique public identifier used to make calls to Question 2’s API?
appKey

Q6 (10 pts) - What is the name of the unique private identifier used to authenticate API requests on the platform (from Question 2)?
appSecret

Steps I Took

I searched for Q1 and found the answer quickly.

I used the same approach for Q2.

Q3 — This was the hardest question in the challenge for me. I tried several possible answers from the following page, but none of them were accepted: https://developer.aliyun.com/article/1580654

I was not sure why my earlier attempts were incorrect. I came back to it the next day and found the correct answer much faster. https://gw.open.1688.com/openapi/param2/

Q5 and Q6 — I found both of these on the following page: https://open.1688.com/doc/apiAuth.htm

Q4 also took me a long time to track down. https://www.worldfirst.com/eu/help-center/faqs/1688-world-pay/