I'm supposed to find the flag somewhere but this g...

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Challenge (1).png
ChallengeCircuit (1).png

I'm supposed to find the flag somewhere but this guy just sent me two images to try to find it! What the flip, I don't know anything about Electrical Engineering!!
flag format: bronco{....}
forensic challenge
solve challenge

Trả lời

I tried treating the two PNGs as a forensic/steganography challenge rather than an EE problem:

  • Checked PNG metadata/chunks → no EXIF/text chunks, no appended data after IEND.
  • Checked common LSB steganography approaches:
    • RGB channels
    • individual bit planes
    • channel permutations
    • reversed pixel orders
    • combining the two images
  • Nothing produced a readable bronco{...} string.
  • The images themselves appear to be normal PNG renders of:
    1. a paper table about Radix-4 Booth multiplier designs
    2. a Booth encoder transistor schematic

The EE content is likely a clue, not the payload. The key words are:

text
RADIX-4 BOOTH BOOTH ENCODER PARTIAL PRODUCT ROW

However, from the two images alone I cannot recover a valid flag. There is no visible bronco{...} string and no straightforward stego payload in the PNG data.

The challenge is probably expecting one of these additional steps:

  1. Use the original image files, not screenshots
    (Screenshots often destroy LSB/stego data.)

  2. Run a stronger PNG stego tool such as:

    text
    zsteg Challenge.png zsteg ChallengeCircuit.png

    because it checks unusual bit ordering and pixel traversal patterns I cannot fully reproduce manually.

  3. The EE clue may indicate a Booth encoding extraction, where the circuit/table provides bits that must be decoded.

If you can upload the original challenge ZIP/files (or the exact two PNGs from the CTF download), I can continue and extract the actual:

bronco{........}

flag. Right now the supplied images do not contain an recoverable flag through standard forensic extraction.

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