Script Kiddie

It looks like a script kiddie was trying to build a crypto locker. See if you can get the database back?

• File: encrypted_db

Recon

Looks like a hex-encoded file, which is then encoded with Base64. We used a oneliner to solve this challenge.

Code

$ xxd -r -p encrypted_db | base64 -d | egrep -o 'flag{[^}]*}'
flag{ENC0D1NG_D4TA_1S_N0T_ENCRY7I0N}

Flag

flag{ENC0D1NG_D4TA_1S_N0T_ENCRY7I0N}