Snow Man ~ Traboda Forensic Challenge Write Up

Challenge Description : Read the challenge name again! And yeah, everything you need is present in this file.

Challenge Link : https://app.traboda.com/challenge/98

Flag Format : inctfj{…}

For this challenge we are given a text file consisting of a poem(Save the poem in a file named poem.txt).

On reading through the poem for finding clues , I found ..

Since the challenge is related to Snow , we shall use a tool named stegsnow

In a terminal execute,

stegsnow -C -p "thisiseasy" poem.txt

On executing the above command we will get a base64 string

aW5jdGZqe2g0aDRfc3QzZ3NuMHdfaTVfYzAwMDAwMDAxfQ==

To decode this string , execute..

echo "aW5jdGZqe2g0aDRfc3QzZ3NuMHdfaTVfYzAwMDAwMDAxfQ==" | base64 --decode

On executing the above line we will get the flag for the challenge.

The required flag is inctfj{h4h4_st3gsn0w_i5_c00000001}

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