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Name: my-assm-hurts
Description: As Mary was attempting to time travel, she slipped on a patch of ice and landed on her butt. While getting up from the ice, she found a cool-looking USB flash drive containing a file with some system code. Can you help Mary decrypt what information the file has?
Author: TomB
This will be reverse.
We get a file that looks like assembly or some intermediate compilation step, who would want to read that.
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I asked chatgpt to solve the challenge for me, thank god it did, I really didn’t want to read that.
There was a link to the original transcript but it’s down now.
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In the following I removed some parts where I was trying to see if it was possible to compile the file.
- me : By analyzing the file tell me exactly what the program does
- chatgpt : blablabla, By analyzing the character codes (strings like string8, string10, etc.), the program builds the text “NICE_{Hey_this_is_COOL}”, blablabla
- me (in my head) : Humm this looks like a flag however it is not the right format lets ask again
- me : Are you sure this is the right string, analyze again to make sure (use a different method)
- chatgpt : blablabla, the flag is
NICC{hEy_th1s-is_Co0L}