splitXquest

Description

Examine the author's github repository thoroughly. Do you see everything? Is there anything hidden? Flag format: pesu_ec{} Author: Mihir J P

Solution

• Going to github and searching for Mihir JP, we find the authors profile with a repository named pesu-ec-ctf

• The readme file says The repo wasn't always like this, so we check the commits

• The first commit gives this
• Visiting the twitter profile, bio contains this: hwkm_wu{q0m
• Rot18 gives us the first part of the flag pesu_ec{y0u

• Checking the 2nd commit, we find this
• We see that the there is a comment on the 18th line, which looks like the 2nd part of the flag.

• ROT18 gives us the 2nd part of the flag _d1d_1t}

FLAG

pesu_ec{y0u_d1d_1t}