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Pho Is Tasty!

The flag is hidden in the jpeg file. Good Luck! Have some Pho! Solve this challenge before solving my Scope challenge for 100 points.

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Before doing anything else let's use the exiftool utility to check the image metadata.

$ exiftool Pho.jpg
ExifTool Version Number         : 12.40
File Name                       : 971
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 64 KiB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2020:07:21 09:06:47+05:30
File Access Date/Time           : 2023:10:06 10:21:02+05:30
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2023:10:06 10:20:24+05:30
File Permissions                : -rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Resolution Unit                 : None
X Resolution                    : 1
Y Resolution                    : 1
Image Width                     : 595
Image Height                    : 661
Encoding Process                : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size                      : 595x661
Megapixels                      : 0.393

We can use the xxd utility to look at the hexadecimal dump of the image.

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