PicoCTF 2021 Writeups

our team's writeups for the 2021 PicoCTF competition

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Waving Flag

Challenge Description

Can you invoke help flags for a tool or binary? This program has extraordinarily helpful information...

Challenge Information

Points: 10

Hints

  1. This program will only work in the webshell or another Linux computer.

  2. To get the file accessible in your shell, enter the following in the Terminal prompt: $ wget https://mercury.picoctf.net/static/a14be2648c73e3cda5fc8490a2f476af/warm

  3. Run this program by entering the following in the Terminal prompt: $ ./warm, but you'll first have to make it executable with $ chmod +x warm

  4. -h and --help are the most common arguments to give to programs to get more information from them!

  5. Not every program implements help features like -h and --help.

Solution

Download "this program", open it and search for "pico" in the search tab. From there, you should be able to find the flag somewhere in the middle.

Flag

picoCTF{b1scu1ts_4nd_gr4vy_755f3544}