Defcon 18 Quals Forensics 200 Write up
Edit: A bunch more DEFCON 18 write ups can be found at the vnSecurity site.
This weekend I competed in the Defcon 18 Qualifiers with team Shellphish. We unfortunately only placed 15th, nonetheless, it was an exciting and challenging weekend. Below is my write up for the Forensics 200 challenge.
I don’t recall the phrasing they gave (if you remember it please let me know), however this was the file they provided: The caption read, “find the key” and linked to this file: f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.lzma
Running file on f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.lzma simply returned data however fortunately the lzma extension was useful to identify that this possibly be uncompressed with 7zip (lmgtfy lzma file). On ubuntu there is a package called p7zip thus:
bryce@sarek:f200$ mv f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.lzma f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.7z bryce@sarek:f200$ p7zip -d f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.7z 7-Zip (A) 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs) Processing archive: f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar.7z Extracting f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar Everything is Ok Size: 1730560 Compressed: 487746 bryce@sarek:f200$ tar -xf f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar
This extracts 1121 png image files.
bryce@sarek:f200$ ls | head f200_02b7b50f575759cff7.tar IMG_0001.png IMG_0002.png IMG_0003.png IMG_0004.png IMG_0005.png IMG_0006.png IMG_0007.png IMG_0008.png IMG_0009.png
Using pnginfo one can verify that each image is similar with respect to its attributes (width, height, bitdepth, channels, etc.). Using manual image inspection we see a mostly transparent image with some white and black pixels. Thus using python’s imaging library (PIL) we simply write a quick program that will combine all the images into one:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | #!/usr/bin/env python import Image def main(): new = Image.open('IMG_0001.png') w, h = new.size for i in range(2, 1122): im = Image.open('IMG_%04d.png' % i) data = im.split() for pixel, value in enumerate(im.getdata()): if value[3] != 0: # not transparent x, y = (pixel % w, pixel * 1. / w) new.putpixel((x, y), value) new.save('f200_result.png') new.show() if __name__ == '__main__': main() |
Running this eventually produces the following image, from which the is.gd url http://is.gd/ced7F is the key. Yeah Sexy CPR.
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