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Matryoshka Doll - picoGym

·106 words·1 min
picoGym Forensics Steganography
Miles Handelman
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Miles Handelman

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This challenge gives us a .jpg file which displays a Matryoshka doll when opened. This challenge can be quickly solved with the knowledge that a Matryoshka doll houses other identical dolls which progressively get smaller inside of it, which made me think that this file could also have functionality as either a .zip or .rar file housing other files. After converting the original file to .rar and opening it with WinRAR, my suspicion was proved to be correct.

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When I changed this image along with two more subsequent image files to .rar, I was greeted by a text file with the flag: picoCTF{336cf6d51c9d9774fd37196c1d7320ff}

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