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DownUnderCTF-On the Spectrum(Forensics)

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Recently, I’ve been getting hooked with forensics challenges, this being the second solve I made for the team.

The challenge description is as follows

“ My friend has been sending me lots of WAV files, I think he is trying to communicate with me, what is the message he sent?”

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The challenge description was already a hint and I pinpointed this to spectrum steganography. Audacity is a popular tool used to analyze waveforms and spectograms

the audio file

https://play.duc.tf/files/cd754e8ca5f4e863149943710549555f/message_1.wav?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3NzQsInRlYW1faWQiOjE0NiwiZmlsZV9pZCI6ODV9.X2eJ4g.K-7io8oej81HFrnGLYwMaIrGNMs

audacity link to download

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

Proceeding to open the .wav file with audacity and viewing it as a spectorgram, we get the flag!

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DUCTF{m4by3_n0t_s0_h1dd3n}

Happy hacking :)