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Hacktivitycon 2021

ODDBALL

Solved By : choco

the given file is an octal dump

0000000 067531 020165 067165 067543 062566 062562 020144 064164
0000020 020145 062563 071143 072145 066440 071545 060563 062547
0000040 035440 005051 072516 061155 071145 020163 067151 071040
0000060 067141 062547 030040 033455 020077 066510 066555 020041
0000100 067510 020167 062157 005041 063012 060554 075547 060462
0000120 031065 061462 033062 034143 060467 031546 034461 061062
0000140 031064 031543 063064 031544 033062 034063 061065 005175
0000160

All we need to do is to convert this octal to hex dump that is split into 16 parts in each line

def octtodec(decnum):
    i = 0
    octdecnum = 0
    while decnum != 0:
        rem = decnum % 10
        octdecnum += rem * 8**i 
        decnum = decnum // 10
        i += 1
    return octdecnum

my_file = open("oddball", "r")
content = my_file.read()
content = content.replace('\n',' ')
content_list = content.split(" ")
print(content_list)
num = []
res = ""
j = 0
for i in range(len(content_list)-1):
        if(i%9!=0):
                res1 = hex(octtodec(int(content_list[i])))
                if(len(res1)<6):
                        res1 = res1[0:2]+'0'+ res1[2:]
                print(res1)
                res = res + res1[4:6] + " " + res1[2:4] + " "
                print(res)
        else:
                num = str(j*10)
                j += 1        
                res = res + "\n" + num.zfill(8) + " "
print(num)
#x = 9
#res = [content_list[i:i+x] for i in range(0, len(content_list), x)]
#print(res)

output will be this

00000000 59 6f 75 20 75 6e 63 6f 76 65 72 65 64 20 74 68 
00000010 65 20 73 65 63 72 65 74 20 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 
00000020 20 3b 29 0a 4e 75 6d 62 65 72 73 20 69 6e 20 72 
00000030 61 6e 67 65 20 30 2d 37 3f 20 48 6d 6d 6d 21 20 
00000040 48 6f 77 20 6f 64 21 0a 0a 66 6c 61 67 7b 32 61 
00000050 35 32 32 63 32 36 63 38 37 61 66 33 31 39 32 62 
00000060 34 32 63 33 34 66 64 33 32 36 33 38 35 62 7d 0a 

you’ll get the flag when converting this hexdump

You uncovered the secret message ;)
Numbers in range 0-7? Hmmm! How od!

flag{2a522c26c87af3192b42c34fd326385b}
Published on : 20 Sep 2021