Challenge 20: HashingJobApp

Description

If you want to hash with the best, beat this test!
$ nc saturn.picoctf.net 63116

Tags

Beginner picoMini 2022 General Skills hashing nc shell python

Points

100

Solution

If we connect to the server, we get the following output:

$ nc saturn.picoctf.net 63116

lease md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'Microsoft'
Answer: 

We can see that we need to hash the text between the quotes. We can use the python3 command to do this:

Note that the word is different each time.

>>> import hashlib
>>> hashlib.md5('Microsoft'.encode()).hexdigest()
'140864078aeca1c7c35b4beb33c53c34'

Or we can use th md5sum command:

$ echo -n 'Microsoft' | md5sum

140864078aeca1c7c35b4beb33c53c34  -

We can then enter the hash into the server. it will then ask us to hash another word. We can repeat this process until we get the flag.

Flag

picoCTF{4ppl1c4710n_r3c31v3d_bf2ceb02}