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Solve the equations embedded in the jpeg to find the flag. Solve this problem before solving my Scope challenge which is worth 100 points.

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Don’t forget we always work inside VMsĀ .

So we’ll upload the file there and thenĀ :

We took the download link and used wget to download theĀ :

I always change the names to something that is closest to what we do, so I changed the name of the file to the name of the task that we are doing nowĀ , Now let’s get startedĀ :

Here we define the file typeĀ , There are a lot of interesting thingsĀ :

I decided to use exif and exiftool:

We found this comment suspiciousĀ :

Let’s search using stringsĀ :

It’s a math storyĀ , We have to solve it thenĀ :

When I substituted the two equations, I found that x = 2 and y = 5

Here is the flag\ See you soon in other reports….!!

Abdelwahab_Shandy

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