Rescue Mission

Category: OSINT

Author: Adarsh Kishore

Answer / Flag: MAZE{W1ntEr_1s-C0m1ngg}

Problem Statement

The clans have found that Joffrey Baratheon is planning to attack again. The list of possible people/places which he will attack have been discovered and listed here.

Also, this audio file which might help pinpoint the attack has also been found.

Help them to find Joffrey’s next move.

Relevant files / links

List of images - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QvZBKFRyMEL2u2WV1WJSu681dheHOkEs?usp=sharing

Audio - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTnV9nDRU4JSv13Ei-QXYO7BlSb-fO4v/view?usp=sharing

Dragonstone - image

Hint

1. The song title is a hint to which of the images is the clue
2. All image files are ultimately binary files, which carry information about it.

Solution

The given audio can be run through a reverse song analyzer like Aha-Music to get it as ‘Dragonstone’. This helps in pinpointing the location as corresponding to dragon-stone.jpg.

On running this image through a hex editor like HexEd, in the very end bytes is the flag MAZE{W1ntEr_1s-C0m1ngg}