REally nice excercise this exercise teach us 2 things never give up never stop becoz u can't do it

almost trapped in the loop :)

Good One !

Amazing

pay attention hhhh "encoded it few times"

very fun

this is fun

Very fun

Man you are crazy 5/5

i won

Got me saying "OMG really ??" like 4 times

Very creative and fun:)

Hahaha same dude! Like 'daaamn'

omg this is the challenge i have worked the most . but when u get the flag it is very satisfying

So challenging! so many steps! You have to download a second image, do strings, and use binwalk to extract 2 files one of which is a rar file, and do strings again on the other file, and be careful what you select as the base64 strings to decode, and you decode 4 times. Woah! Excellent exercise!

Real funny idk man was laughing throughout the whole thing

Kinda feel like it should be more than 20 points !! fun though :)

Challenge broken? Running binwalk on the second image doesn't reveal the RAR data:

DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0x0 JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01 30 0x1E TIFF image data, little-endian offset of first image directory: 8 426 0x1AA Copyright string: "Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company"

Had to go read a writeup to solve this one, doesn't appear possible currently.

Very much possible right now. Haven't read a writeup and did it just literally in 2minutes.

Did you use binwalk?

Strings, Binwalk, File, were the only commands i used to get the flag

Weird. Did binwalk tell you it detected a RAR file?

Yes

Please do binwalk -h and tell me the version it says

v2.1.2

Weird, it doesn't find the RAR on v2.1.1 - thanks