strings-it

Notes

Challenge: strings it

Let's see the file type of the file.

Command:

file strings

Output:

strings: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=0cdedfba33422d235dba8c90e00fb77b235f1ff8, not stripped

Using strings on it and save the printout to a file.

Command:

strings strings > strings-output.txt

Seemed like a big file to go through. Then i used grep to find pico in the output of strings.That did the job.

Command:

strings -d strings | grep "pico"

Output:

picoCTF{5tRIng5_1T_7f766a23}