Questcon 2023 | Stego

Grishma Acharya
Oct 29, 2023

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Challenge 1: Mystery

Since it is a jpg file, lets start with stegseek.

Lets try exiftool for pirate.jpg.out

The Image Unique ID seems suspicious.

After digging into it, I found it is encoded in base64.

We got it!!!

flag: QUESTCON{My5t3ry_1s_4w3s0me!}

Challenge 2: Mystery 2.0

Since it is a png file, lets use zsteg.

We got it!!!

flag: QUESTCON{P1raT3s_Ar3_M7s!3rY}

Hope you enjoyed doing the challenges.

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Grishma Acharya
Grishma Acharya

Written by Grishma Acharya

CTF player | Cyber security enthusiast

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