Task 1: Translation & Shifting
c4n y0u c4p7u23 7h3 f149?
The text is encoded in Leetspeak.
In order to decode we just have to substitute the numbers with the equivalent characters.
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can you capture the flag
01101100 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100001
We have to convert the bits into ASCII.
We can do that using CyberChef.
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lets try some binary out!
MJQXGZJTGIQGS4ZAON2XAZLSEBRW63LNN5XCA2LOEBBVIRRHOM======
The ====== at the end is an indication of Base32 encoding.
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base32 is super common in CTF's
RWFjaCBCYXNlNjQgZGlnaXQgcmVwcmVzZW50cyBleGFjdGx5IDYgYml0cyBvZiBkYXRhLg==
Similar to the previous one, the == is a sign of Base64 encoding.
Let's decode it using the base64 command.
$ echo "RWFjaCBCYXNlNjQgZGlnaXQgcmVwcmVzZW50cyBleGFjdGx5IDYgYml0cyBvZiBkYXRhLg==" | base64 -d
Each Base64 digit represents exactly 6 bits of data.
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Each Base64 digit represents exactly 6 bits of data.
68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 6f 72 20 62 61 73 65 31 36 3f
This one is in hexadecimal format.
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hexadecimal or base16?
Ebgngr zr 13 cynprf!
Looks like Caesar cipher.
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*@F DA:? >6 C:89E C@F?5 323J C:89E C@F?5 Wcf E:>6DX
Because all the characters are capitalized, we can tell that this is Rot47 encoding.
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You spin me right round baby right round (47 times)
. .-.. . -.-. --- -- -- ..- -. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -.
. -. -.-. --- -.. .. -. --.
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TELECOMMUNICATION ENCODING
85 110 112 97 99 107 32 116 104 105 115 32 66 67 68
Because this one does not have any characters, we can safely say that it is not Hexadecimal.
Therefore it has to be Decimal.
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This one is encoded multiple times.
In CyberChef, we can pipe our recipes such that the first one's output is the next one's input.
The exact sequence is as follows:
From Base64 > From Morse Code > From Binary > RPT47 > From Decimal
Answer
Let's make this a bit trickier...
Task 2: Spectrograms
Download the file
For this one we have to use a Spectrum analyzer tool Audacity, etc.
Answer
Task 3: Steganography
Decode the image to reveal the answer.
Steganography is the method of hiding data or even other files in an image files.
There are other types of steganography as well such as video steganography, sudio steganography, etc.
We can extract the hidden file using steghide.
$ steghide extract -sf stegosteg.jpg
Enter passphrase:
wrote extracted data to "steganopayload2248.txt".
$ cat steganopayload2248.txt
SpaghettiSteg
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Task 4: Task 4 Security through obscurity
Download and get 'inside' the file. What is the first filename & extension?
We can extract the files inside the image using binwalk.
$ binwalk -e meme.jpg
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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0 0x0 JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
30 0x1E TIFF image data, big-endian, offset of first image directory: 8
74407 0x122A7 RAR archive data, version 5.x
74478 0x122EE PNG image, 147 x 37, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
74629 0x12385 Zlib compressed data, default compression
Let's list the contents of the _meme.jpg.extracted directory that was created.
$ ls _meme.jpg.extracted
122A7.rar 12385 12385.zlib hackerchat.png
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Get inside the archive and inspect the file carefully. Find the hidden text.
If we just run strings on the hackerchat.png file, we will see the flag at the very bottom.
$ strings hackerchat
"AHH_YOU_FOUND_ME!"
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