Hacking Insights by Max Bautista

WIDE writeup

Challenge name: WIDE

Difficulty: Very Easy

Challenge Scenario: We’ve received reports that Draeger has stashed a huge arsenal in the pocket dimension Flaggle Alpha. You’ve managed to smuggle a discarded access terminal to the Widely Inflated Dimension Editor from his headquarters, but the entry for the dimension has been encrypted. Can you make it inside and take control?

Link: https://app.hackthebox.com/challenges/WIDE?tab=play_challenge

Machine IP: N/A

We were provided some files. Downloaded those and unzipped them. We get two files.

When cat’ing them out we get jumbled characters. 

Wide can be executed so I ran that and it gave me usage that I could run it against db.ex.

When typing numbers it game more more information on the dimensions. When I tried 6, which would be Flaggle Alpha, it asks for a key as it is encrypted.

We can use radare2 to map the binary.

r2 -A wide

Afl

Pdf @ main

Pdf @ sym.menu

I’m not professional yet at reading this yet but there is a lot of comments and we can see a possible key.

Copied that that and ran wide again pasting that and I was able to get the flag.

GG