Category: Reverse Engineering
Author: Aditya Harish
Answer / Flag: WEC{gR3p__c4N_h3Lp}
You discover this binary executable while spying on enemy governments. The way the government hides their data is rather weak, however it can be painstaking.
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On using the strings command, we can observe a large string with a lot of gibberish. We know the flag is of the format WEC{flag}.On running the command strings topsecretinfo | grep -o "WEC{.*" we can search through all strings that start with the pattern WEC{, and then the flag is obtained.