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ABCTF - 60 - MoonWalk - Forensics

noraj (Alexandre ZANNI)
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Information#

Version#

By Translated by Version Comment
Chill3d noraj 1.0 Creation

CTF#

  • Name : ABCTF 2016
  • Website : http://abctf.xyz/
  • Type : Online
  • Format : Jeopardy - Student
  • CTF Time : link

Description#

There is something a little off about [this][this] picture. If you could help us we could give you some points! Just find us a flag! [this]:https://mega.nz/#!q0UyATRS!k2MYymbvEHYy9nVA0awvKMwgKvrEIrPkZ2stcMuGf-E

TL;DR#

asciicast

Solution#

  1. First, we'll check file type:
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file PurpleThing.png
PurpleThing.png: PNG image data, 3200 x 2953, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
  1. Because it's a Forensics challenge, we can look for other files hidden in this image:
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binwalk PurpleThing.png

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
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0             0x0             PNG image, 3200 x 2953, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
85            0x55            Zlib compressed data, best compression
2757          0xAC5           Zlib compressed data, best compression
765455        0xBAE0F         JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
765485        0xBAE2D         TIFF image data, big-endian, offset of first image directory: 8
1809691       0x1B9D1B        StuffIt Deluxe Segment (data): f
  1. Hilights on the JPEG file found: intersting!
  2. So we'll launch a filecarving tool to inspect the file and look for magic headers to recover hidden files:
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foremost -v PurpleThing.png
Foremost version 1.5.7 by Jesse Kornblum, Kris Kendall, and Nick Mikus
Audit File

Foremost started at Thu Jul 21 22:20:19 2016
Invocation: foremost -v PurpleThing.png
Output directory: /root/CTF/ABCTF/60-MoonWalk-Forensics/output
Configuration file: /etc/foremost.conf
Processing: PurpleThing.png
|------------------------------------------------------------------
File: PurpleThing.png
Start: Thu Jul 21 22:20:19 2016
Length: 2 MB (2354256 bytes)

Num	 Name (bs=512)	       Size	 File Offset	 Comment

0:	00001495.jpg 	       1 MB 	     765455 	 
*|
Finish: Thu Jul 21 22:20:20 2016

1 FILES EXTRACTED

jpg:= 1
------------------------------------------------------------------

Foremost finished at Thu Jul 21 22:20:20 2016
  1. Now let's see the image: display output/jpg/00001495.jpg
  2. We find the flag: ABCTF{PNG_S0_C00l}
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