Now You Hear Me

Category: Forensics

Author: Dibyam

Answer / Flag: MAZE{YOUREARSAREGOOD}

Problem Statement

“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good”

In an alternate universe however, A good act does wash out the bad.

Usually they say, that the truth is good and the lie is bad. I wonder why

Open throne.jpg with any text editor and scroll to the bottom. You see the words - “Who do I belong to”
The answer to this question is “bran”. This is the password for the archive.
After unzipping the archive with “bran” as the password, you see two mp3 files, both sounding almost identical.
The file named “hear_me_out.mp3” however has been superimposed with a morse signal, which is faintly audible.
The other audio file, is the original audio file (The Truth)
As far as all the good cancelling all the bad goes, invert the given original audio track and superimpose it with the other “hear_me_out.mp3” file.
The same frequencies in the both the files would cancel each other, and only the morse code would remain.
Now, you can open the audio file using any Audio Visualizing tool such as Audacity and see the spectogram. To get a clear picture, reduce the window size to around 256 and reduce the range to around 20dB. This will reveal the hidden morse code which looks something like this.
The Dits and Dahs are clearly visible. Feed them into any morse decoder and you get the final flag as YOUREARSAREGOOD