GryphonCTF_2016: Mr Robot

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The sound is so deep for elliot Alternative (Faster) Download Link WARNING: 63 MB file Creator - Darren Ang (@Southzxc)

Write-up

No files provided as it's a really big file. Download the file, ignore everything else. Extract the two WAVs and load the 58.3MB wav into SonicVisualiser. You see those two spikes? Well, don't worry. Add a spectrogram pane and look for the red lines in the timeline. Scroll to the red lines, zoom in, set window to 256 and 50% and viola, you found text.

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Upon tireless copying, we get the password, BSXPeQrbG3HrG1in2VrU.

Opening the other WAV file in SonicVisualiser though, reveals nothing. Hmm... Sound is so deep for elliot... Mr Robot... Wait a second. I've never watched Mr Robot in my life but maybe googling 'Mr Robot WAV Steganography' will reveal something? Couple of searches later, we end up with a tool called DeepSound.

Putting the password into DeepSound and the 2nd WAV file, we get a hidden .DOCX file. Extracting it and opening it up gives us a cryptic The flag is not here, look harder. Opening Properties and going into Custom, we see a Flag property. Viola.

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Therefore, the flag is GCTF{57364n06r4phy_15n7_7h47_h4rd}.