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CTF Writeups: Hackfest 8 Finals

I had a great time participating in the Hackfest CTF Finals, it was a well-organized, challenging, and overall fantastic event. Big thanks to the organizers for putting together such an awesome experience!

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In this post, I’m sharing my writeups for two of the challenges I worked on during the finals. I walk through the thought process, the tools I used, and how I solved them step by step.

1-Cryptography Task: SEDYEKKAEW

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After testing my solution locally and receiving a fake flag, I confirmed that my script was correct and obtained the real flag.

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2-STEGANO Task: Soldier

I have only this source image:

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I searched for a cheat sheet on steganography on Google and found one that was useful. I scrolled down and got this magic website

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I uploaded the picture and was able to obtain the flag:

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I hope you enjoy it 👩‍💻

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