Find the Cat – Root ME CTF Forensic

The president’s cat was kidnapped by separatists. A suspect carrying a USB key has been arrested. Berthier, once again you have to save the Republic! Analyze this key and find out in which city the cat is retained!

The md5sum of the archive is edf2f1aaef605c308561888079e7f7f7. Input the city name in lowercase.

Download evidence file and run these commands.

First of all, we will get information about evidence.


Command: file chall9

Command: fdisk -l chall9

Write the partition as separate image

Command: dd if=chall9 of=chall9_p1 bs=512 skip=2048 count=260096

Mount the image:

Command: sudo mount chall9_p1 /dev/disk

Command: ls /dev/disk

Command: ls /dev/disk/Documentations

Command: sudo umount /dev/disk

Alas. Maybe deleted?

Command: testdisk chall9_p1

enter – enter – enter – list – enter

Select Files and Enter

select this file – -rwxr-xr-x 0 0 2341273 23-Jul-2013 04:20 revendications.odt

press c for copy this file and select location and press again c for paste

than press q for exit

go to save location and go to file folder

now extract this file – revendications.odt

Command: unzip revendications.odt

after extract go to picture folders

rename this image name any and upload to this website or use exiftool for extract information

command: mv 1000000000000CC000000990038D2A62.jpg cat.jpg

upload this image to this website – https://www.pic2map.com

We have got the address – 1, Rue Principale, Helfrantzkirch, Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, Metropolitan France, 68510, France

Flag – helfrantzkirch

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