Cicada 3301


Ananlyse the audio
With visual-analyser add a spectrogram layer and get this qr code
It gives you a link to a pastebin. Answer to question 1
Decode the passphrase
from the pastebin you get a passhprase and a key, both in base64
Then use the key to decode the new passphrase. I let you guess this one it’s funnier…
Or just use the hints
Gather Metadata
use steghide
with the passphrase to get the invitation.txt
which contains a link to an imgur image

Looks like the first image right? Not the same! use outguess
to extract the next challenge
Note: Make sure to download the image correctly from imgur and not just “save as” image
└─(01:53:12 on master ✭)──> outguess -r undefined.jpg out.txt 1 ↵ ──(lun.,mars04)─┘
Reading undefined.jpg....
Extracting usable bits: 29035 bits
Steg retrieve: seed: 38, len: 1351
Book cypher
In the text we just extracted there is a hash. Use this to get it cracked
yes it’s another pastebin link…
From that you get a book…and now the rest of the challenge makes sense…You use the pattern provided in the extracted text to read something from the book…
use some good old pen and paper to get ANOTHER link (not pastebin this time)
The final song
The satisfaction of solving this room is perfectly described by this song. This room is very cool
Remember, cicadas don’t cry