A Birthday Themed CTF Brought to you by the
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1) Encoded Gift Tag [cryptography]
What a weird thing to write on a gift tag. Figure out what they’re trying to say!
To: Prof Dyess
From: The Cyber Titans
Happy birthday! Here's your present:
RUZTQ3tCYTVlXzY0X2lzX2JhNWVkfQ==
2) Cake Format Fiasco [file forensics]
We’re trying to serve the cake but it won’t open?! If you figure out what’s wrong with it, you can have a slice!
3) A Least Significant Hidden Gift [steganography]
I’m sure there’s something good in this present! See if you can peak inside!
4) All Aboard for Crack Station [password cracking]
For security, passwords are stored as hashes, not in plain text. Doesn’t mean we can’t hack them though!
Can you identify and crack these hashes from a Party City data leak?
0511b8bd04eff817025381422e4850e8
ea20e1279bbe86cba2a5af1a9c5cd24e
8657266e540e57f8ac42e36b8dbac638
5) Giftception [cryptography + file forensics]
It’s a present wrapped inside another a present, there’s gotta be something REALLY cool in there. See if you can get to the center.