HilltopCTF’s Mr. Pink Write-up
HilltopCTF is a team-based public CTF hosted by Security Blue Team which focuses in jeopardy style challenges with increasing level of difficulties. The CTF is aimed at anyone from novice to medium high level experience as challenges are varied and require a combination of resources and methodologies to be completed.
If you are familiar with my journey into the field of information security, (Journey here!) you know that HilltopCTF holds many “firsts” in my books; my first live CTF, first time using GitHub, first times using John The Ripper, and first time placing top five in a CTF competition — I am proud to add yet another accomplishment to the list of firsts as HilltopCTF gave me the opportunity to be part of the engineering team in designing and testing challenges for the event that took place from May 23rd to Jun 1.
Mr. Pink
Mr. Pink is categorized as a lower tier hybrid steganography and cryptography challenge earning the participant 25 point.
This challenges provides you with:
One line description:
“It’s hard to be a flamingo in flock of pigeons… “
One downloadable file: QueenBee.jpg
One available hint:
“Its like a Matryoshka; you know, those Russian nesting dolls…”
Mr Pink Write-Up
This challenge was completed on an Parrot Security VM using VirtualBox.
Access the challenge and take note of any information given;
“It is hard to be a flamingo in a flock of pigeon…”
Proceed to Download provided document; QueenBee.jpg
In order to navigate in terminal, basic Linux commands are needed~ Here is a refresher if needed!
