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SANS Institute Black History Month CTF

Tools tried
- exiftool
- file
- binwalk
- It looked like there may have been something to do with PB and Jelly toward the start of the hexdump in there.
- Decoded the comment in the image metadata into ASCII

  • Directory traversal w/ encoding?
  • There is nothing really in the page source aside from an indication of an /img/ directory with a spongebob gif inside.

Review

  • The file command to determine file type + various metadata. e.g. type of executable/binary/etc

Useful Tools

  • Encryption / decryption
    • https://www.dcode.fr/caesar-cipher
    • Cyberchef
  • Enumeration
    • Dirbuster
  • Passwords
    • John the Ripper
  • Binary Analysis
    • Dogbolt: https://dogbolt.org/
    • strings
    • binwalk

Problems:
- nm03 stream
- cm01 base64 encoded ELF binary