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First Find

  • Description: Unzip this archive and find the file named 'uber-secret.txt'
  • Difficulty: Easy

🔎 Solution​

The goal of this challenge is to locate and read the contents of a file named uber-secret.txt after extracting a given archive or directory. To find the file, we use the following command find [path-to-directory] -name [file-name]. This command recursively searches through the directory tree for the target file by name.

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ find files -name "uber-secret.txt" 
files/adequate_books/more_books/.secret/deeper_secrets/deepest_secrets/uber-secret.txt

Once the correct path to uber-secret.txt is identified, simply display its contents and the flag will be revealed within the file.

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ cat files/adequate_books/more_books/.secret/deeper_secrets/deepest_secrets/uber-secret.txt
picoCTF{f1nd_15_f457_ab443fd1}

🚩Flag​

picoCTF{f1nd_15_f457_ab443fd1}