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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.

Pho.jpg

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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