Information

Points	Category	Level
100	General Skills	Easy

Challenge

Can you find the flag in this file without actually running it? You can also find the file in /problems/strings_3_1dbaafa1f8f0556872cad33e16bc8dc7 on the shell server.

Hint

strings

Solution

First of all, we want to make “strings” file readable, so let’s use the strings command

open terminal -> move to the folder of the file (by cd) -*> strings strings > output.txt

• strings - the strings command cast binary/executable file to human-readable string
  • command syntax:

    strings FILENAME

added > output.txt to save the results of the command in output.txt file. now, we can open the output.txt file and see a lot of garbage, let’s do the same trick we did in grep 1

open terminal -> move to the folder of the file (by cd) -*> grep "picoCTF" file

Flag

picoCTF{sTrIngS_sAVeS_Time_2fbe2166}

Downloads

• output.txt

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