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Garbage Runner

Garbage Runner

Description

CTF: Whitehacks 2022

Author: xbowery

Difficulty: Easy

The mischievous aliens have dumped our lovely poster into the trash can, maybe you can walk through it to find some treasure?


treasure.pdf

Solution

Pwned by @skytect (opens in a new tab)

maybe you walk through it

Try binwalk?

$ binwalk treasure.pdf
 
DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0             0x0             PDF document, version: "1.7"
630           0x276           Zlib compressed data, default compression
1120          0x460           JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
1150          0x47E           TIFF image data, big-endian, offset of first image directory: 8
16313         0x3FB9          JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
27201         0x6A41          JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
27231         0x6A5F          TIFF image data, big-endian, offset of first image directory: 8
36866         0x9002          JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
36896         0x9020          TIFF image data, big-endian, offset of first image directory: 8
65132         0xFE6C          JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
184978        0x2D292         Zlib compressed data, default compression
185612        0x2D50C         Zlib compressed data, default compression
208416        0x32E20         Zlib compressed data, default compression

Cool now let's foremost it to extract all the files nicely.

$ foremost -i treasure.pdf

After looking through the output folder, you would find a sus image in output/jpg/00000002.jpg with the flag:

image with flag

WH2022{m0r3_th4n_m33t5_th3_3y3}