2023 HuntressCTF - Comprezz

2023-11-01

Summary

Author: @JohnHammond

Someone stole my S's and replaced them with Z's! Have you ever seen this kind of file before?

Steps

After downloading comprezz to my Kali instance, I ran file comprezz an d received the following output ��f؄9�'FnĠ���j�CC�34h̐q���f0Z�% Based on the challenge name and that the file is not readable, I decided to try to uncompress the file using. First I changed the file name from comprezz to comprezz.z Then I used uncompress comprezz. The extract file is comprezz which had the flag.

flag{196a71490b7b55c42bf443274f9ff42b}