Cyber Apocalypse 2024
Makeshift
Solved by: Legend
Challenge description:
Weak and starved, you struggle to plod on. Food is a commodity at this stage, but you can’t lose your alertness - to do so would spell death. You realise that to survive you will need a weapon, both to kill and to hunt, but the field is bare of stones. As you drop your body to the floor, something sharp sticks out of the undergrowth and into your thigh. As you grab a hold and pull it out, you realise it’s a long stick; not the finest of weapons, but once sharpened could be the difference between dying of hunger and dying with honour in combat.
For this challenge we are given the code in which the flag is just getting shifted. So I just reversed the script with trail and error I got the flag.
#! /usr/bin/python3
new_flag = "!?}De!e3d_5n_nipaOw_3eTR3bt4{_THB"
flag = ''
for i in range(0, len(new_flag), 3):
flag += new_flag[i+2]
flag += new_flag[i]
flag += new_flag[i+1]
flag = flag[::-1]
print(flag)
HTB{4_b3tTeR_w3apOn_i5_n3edeD!?!}