TFC CTF 2023 - DOWN BAD
Description
- Category:
Forensic
The flag is right there!
Download:
- down_bad.png (right-click and
Save link as
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Resolution
When we open the image, there is an error.
Let’s find the error and repair it:
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$ pngcheck down_bad.png
down_bad.png CRC error in chunk IHDR (computed 1d9c52c0, expected a9d5455b)
ERROR: down_bad.png
We change the CRC using ImHex:
And we can now open it:
It seems that the challenge and the content of the picture don’t want us to look down, so let’s do that.
I’m using TweakPNG which is a great tool for manipulating PNGs easily (only available for Windows but you can run it with WINE):
Let’s increase the height to see what’s below:
We save our modification, and now we can see the flag: TFCCTF{28ae25c96850245ffdd70a880158f9f3}
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