Category: reverse
Points: (dependant on solve time)
Description
A 7zip archive was provided, along with an ASCII art picture of a cat.
Files
Solution
The 7zip archive contained two files:
- meow.n
- flag_enc.png
The meow.n file was a NekoVM executable. Running it produced...
andrew@WOPR /tmp/meow % neko meow.n
Usage: meow INPUT OUTPUT
When run with flag_enc.png, it produced a similarly broken image.
We couldn't immediatly find any tools for RE'ing NekoVM executables, so @BaileyBelisario wrote a script to keep feeding the output image back in as input, saving each file along the way.
#!/bin/bash
#neko meow.n flag_enc.png flag_dec0.png
for ((i = 1 ; i < 10000 ; i++)); do
let k=$i-1
neko meow.n flag_dec$k.png flag_dec$i.png
done
Eventually, some of them started to look like a Nyan Cat image (although still severely broken). However even after several thousand iterations they never became clean enough to read.
Iteration #2098
Iteration #2108
On a whim I opened one in GIMP, and carefully deleted all of the incorrect pixels around the flag. To my suprise, it was just enough to make it readable!
Flag
TWCTF{Ny4nNyanNy4n_M30wMe0wMeow}