Glory of the Garden


We start with a garden.jpg
, viewing the contents having a picture of a garden but no flag visually.
I try using exiftool
to view for any headers of interest, there are a few results but none that catch my eye as of interest.
I then view the contents of the image using xxd
, sometimes CTF challenges (especially easier forensics ones) like to hide written data in the image at the end, I check with tail
and xxd
and find the flag:
$ xxd garden.jpg| tail
00230500: d9f9 9f63 4b2b c1e5 daf2 7b59 db49 4ba3 ...cK+....{Y.IK.
00230510: f43e b881 5e30 1060 8030 47d6 bacb 58cb .>..^0.`.0G...X.
00230520: 1046 07b5 7216 df7e 5ff7 c576 363f ebab .F..r..~_..v6?..
00230530: b70d 18ce 3ccd 6a7e 6b8d af56 b579 39ca ....<.j~k..V.y9.
00230540: eeef 53ae 8620 31b8 751f 9514 f7fb cff5 ..S.. 1.u.......
00230550: a2bb bdac 9687 98e4 d3b2 e87f ffd9 4865 ..............He
00230560: 7265 2069 7320 6120 666c 6167 2022 7069 re is a flag "pi
00230570: 636f 4354 467b 6d6f 7265 5f74 6861 6e5f coCTF{more_than_
00230580: 6d33 3374 735f 7468 655f 3379 3365 4264 m33ts_the_3y3eBd
00230590: 4264 3263 637d 220a Bd2cc}".
Flag: picoCTF{more_than_m33ts_the_3y3eBdBd2cc}
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