strings_it.md

strings it

Challenge Description

Can you find the flag in file without running it?

My Solution Flowchart

1. It's easy. The solution is in the name of the challenge.
2. I have to find the flag in the string output of the file.
3. So, I opened the bash terminal in the folder where I have downloaded the given file.
4. Then I ran below command in the terminal

     strings ./strings | grep pico

   Here I have used the strings command to get the string version of the file. Here the filename is also "strings" so the next part is ./strings and then I used grep command after pipe character to search through the output. I searched for the word "pico" because I knew that the flag is gonna start with the word picoCTF
5. And as soon as I pressed Enter key, the flag showed up 😃