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+title: AmateurCTF
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+---
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+{{< cards >}}
+  {{< card link="cherry-blossom-writeup" title="Amateur CTF | Cherry Blossoms" icon="pencil" >}}
+  {{< card link="densely-packed-writeup" title="Amateur CTF | Densely Packed" icon="pencil" >}}
+{{< /cards >}}

content/ctf-writeups/amateur-ctf/cherry-blossom-writeup.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Amateur CTF | Cherry Blossoms
+date: 2024-04-12
+tags: ['Amateur CTF']
+---
+# Writeup for Osint / Cherry-blossoms
+
+First of all, the given image was taken at a place in Washington DC (as stated in the description).
+Also, it is intuitive that the required location would not be a random location, it should be at some famous place in the city.  
+We will be using google maps for searching the required place in this chall.  
+So we have to search a place in Washington DC that had **cherry-blossom trees** and some **USA flags** near it.   
+If we closely look at the image, the flags are making an arc, so it is possible that there may be a **building which is circled around by USA flags**.  
+So this gives us an idea, that the required location could be a place of some national importance because Washington DC is also the capital of USA.  
+So I started to search famous places and places of national importance in Washington DC that could have USA flags and cherry-blossom trees near them.  
+First I stumbled upon the White house, but was not able to find any cherry blossom trees near it. Then I thought for looking for some gardens (I knew I was going on the wrong path, but it was OSInt).  
+Then I saw the Washington monument building (coming back to the previous idea). Now I used the street mode in google maps. Oh yeah! I found flags circling around the monument building and there were cherry-blossom trees near it, which can be seen near the lockkeeper’s house in the satellite mode image. So we are probably at the correct location.   
+
+![Image](../assets/satelite.png)
+
+Now I tried using the latitudes and longitudes of the in the netcat server, but it was saying that I was at wrong location.  
+So I read the python script of the netcat server that was given with this chall and found the below part of code:  
+
+`if abs(x2 - x) < 0.0010 and abs(y2 - y) < 0.0010:`
+
+So the search was not over yet. Now I looked at the given image more clearly and tried to find a location that could give me the same view as of the given image. After some more tries of finding the correct location using google maps in street mode, I found the nearly accurate latitude and longitude that were 38.888592657524825, -77.03430091721995  
+
+and the location was <https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°53'18.7"N+77°02'03.7"W/@38.8888505,-77.0343251,19z/data=!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.8885278!4d-77.0343611?entry=ttu>

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Amateur CTF | Densely Packed
+date: 2024-04-12
+tags: ['Amateur CTF']
+---
+# Writeup for misc / densely packed
+
+We will be using Audacity for the analysis of the given wav file.  
+On hearing the given wav file, one can easily infer that it might be running at a higher speed than its original speed. So we hear the audio again by reducing its speed by a factor of 10 (nearly). Now it seems like this might be a human voice. Also, the name of the challenge was densely packed, so this implies that they had reduced an audio of 5-6 minutes into that of 25 seconds. This tells that we are in the right direction.  
+But still the audio was not understandible. So another idea came to my mind that I should try to hear it after reversing the audio.  
+Now play the audio again. We can hear a man's voice (which might not be very clear).  
+One can easily hear him saying "the flag is `inverse transformations`, with an underscore in between, wrap it in the flag wrapper".  
+So the flag is `amateursCTF{inverse_transformations}`
+