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