Hackerman

Name	Hackerman
Hint	There should be something hidden inside this photo... Can you find out?
Base Points	Easy - Retired [0]
Rated Difficulty
	alamot
Creator	SirenCeol

A simple hackerman.jpg is the file we start with. Checking strings reveals a hidden value: 5634275d694f8665957746c9619132f0. Dropping that into CrackStation gives us a result.

Hackerman challenge image — The supplied challenge image.

$ strings hackerman.jpg

o3n=
2<co;
5634275d694f8665957746c9619132f0

CrackStation result for the recovered hash — CrackStation recovers the passphrase `almost`.

Let's see whether almost works with steghide extract. It does, producing a new hackerman.txt file.

$ steghide extract -sf hackerman.jpg
Enter passphrase: almost
wrote extracted data to "hackerman.txt".

$ cat hackerman.txt
SFRCezN2MWxfYzBycH0=

$ echo 'SFRCezN2MWxfYzBycH0=' | base64 -d
HTB{3v1l_c0rp}

Easiest challenge yet! Does that make me “Hackerman” or “Elite”?

Hackerman elite meme — Challenge complete.