TryHackMe: Capture The Flag
3 min readMar 5, 2021
Having fun with TryHackMe again. So, here is the write up and guideline to pass this Capture The Flag challenge. Basically this challenge by far the easiest and the fastest I solved in 15 minutes
Room: https://tryhackme.com/room/c4ptur3th3fl4g
Level: Easy
Task: 4 Stages. Decode Everything…..
Lets get started
Task 1: Translation & Shifting
Task 1.1 — Guess and Replace
Pretty straight forward cipher. You can guess and replace the letter
c4n y0u c4p7u23 7h3 f149?
=> Can You Capture ... ....Task 1.2 — Binary
Using cyberchef, copy and paste to decode
01101100 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100001=> lets try XXXX binary XXXX
Task 1.3 — Base32
Using cyberchef, copy and paste to decode
MJQXGZJTGIQGS4ZAON2XAZLSEBRW63LNN5XCA2LOEBBVIRRHOM======
=> XXXXXX is XXXXX common in XXXXX