Hackerman

└──╼ $exif hackerman.jpg
Données corrompues
Les données fournies ne respectent pas les spécifications.
ExifLoader: Les données fournies ne semblent pas contenir de données EXIF.
└──╼ $steghide --info hackerman.jpg
"hackerman.jpg":
format: jpeg
capacit�: 7,0 KB
Essayer d'obtenir des informations � propos des donn�es incorpor�es ? (o/n) o
Entrez la passphrase:
steghide: impossible d'extraire des donn�es avec cette passphrase!
passphrase? so cracking involved…
friendship with stegcracker
is over now stegseek
is my best friend
└──╼ $stegseek hackerman.jpg /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
StegSeek 0.6 - https://github.com/RickdeJager/StegSeek
[i] Progress: 99.98% (133.4 MB)
[!] error: Could not find a valid passphrase.
Actually no cracking was needed I am a bit stupid, because the passphrase was in plain sight all this time: HACKERMAN
└──╼ $steghide --extract -sf hackerman.jpg
Entrez la passphrase:
�criture des donn�es extraites dans "secret.txt".
The secret.txt
file introduce us to Jake Bellagot
We finally got a name…you know what to do…
we got a twitter account
@JBellagot
talks about NoobCon2020
and that picture with a QR code

Reading the qr code take us to https://jakeyboybellagot.github.io/ubiquitous-waffle/
When trying to contact him using the button you notice the link is encoded in base64
Q1NMezk0YTA0OTBhZDZjMjcxNWFmMTI0OTA1NWE5YTVkYzI3fQ==
which decodes to
CSL{the_flag_goes_here}
Done.
I really wanted to contact this guy, but he could blackhat me later
69b4a35 @ 2025-07-27