Write-up author: jon-brandy
A musician left us a message. What's it mean?
- NONE
- First, download the file given.
- Since it's a
.txt
file, let's see what strings inside by run ->strings message.txt
.
OUTPUT
- At first, i didn't get what it means. But there's something that caught my attention.
- The one with minus value.
- It reminds me of an
(x, y)
coordinate? - So i opened google maps, and paste the coordianates at the
search
area and got this!
- Hmm Dayton.. Might be just a coincidence, so i tried another value, this time i tried the first one.
- This time Kyoto. I think it really does a coordinates, so i tried to concate every each one of them from the start.
OUTPUT:
Kyoto, Odessa, Dayton, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, _ Adis Ababa, Loja, Amsterdam, Sleepy Hollow, Kodiak, Alexandria Governorate
- It does confusing, either i took the region or the city name of it. I tried to took every each and took the first character of each string and concate them. But the one which the
web
accept is flag from the name above. - If i took every first index of the string, it will give us:
KODIAK_ALASKA
- Finally just wrap it around with
picoCTF{}
.
picoCTF{KODIAK_ALASKA}
NOTES:
I think there's an intended solution for this challenge.