Another challenge, another post - this time it’s all about the text. It said the flag was somewhere in a file, this time a .docx file. I assumed it would be something tricky as the file format’s essentially a .zip file full of metadata and content files.
I wasted a good five minutes messing around in the file, extracting it and poking through the XML files.
It seems it was even easier than that - once I opened it in Apple’s Pages. The capitals out of place all over the file lead me to the solution quick smart - the American “misspelling” of behaviour helped even more. :)
I copied the text to a string in python and did a simple filter.
#!/usr/bin/python
stringvar = """[file contents]"""
flag = ""
for letter in stringvar:
if letter.isupper() or letter in [ '{', '}' ]:
flag += letter.lower()
print flag
I’ll admit - I had to add the underscores - but the essential part of the flag came out.
flag{what_would_a_reasonable_and_prudent_person_do}
It’s irrelevant to the task, but the text is basically the content of the Wikipedia page ‘Law’.