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Cicada-3301 Vol:1

A basic steganography and cryptography challenge room based on the Cicada 3301 challenges

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Task 1Download!
Hello, We are looking for highly intelligent 
individuals. To find them, we have devised a test.
There is a message hidden in this image
Download and unzip the folder given to begin
Good Luck
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Answer the questions below

Download and unzip the given folder

Web Browsers are useless here

Welcome.

Good Luck

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Use Sonic Visualizer to analyze the audio

Answer the questions below
What is the link inside of the audio?

Welcome.

Good Luck.

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Use various encryption methods and ciphers to decode the passphrase and

access the metadata of Welcome.jpg

Answer the questions below
Find and Decrypt the passphrase and key

What is the decrypted passphrase?

What is the decrypted key?

Still looks funny? Find and use a cipher along with the key to decipher the passphrase

What is the final passphrase

Good Luck

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Use Steganography tools to gather metadata from Welcome.jpg as well as 

find the hidden message inside of the image file.

Answer the questions below
Using the found passphrase along with Stego tools find the secret message

What link is given?

I am surprised you have made it this far... 

I doubt you will make it any further.

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Use Stego tools to find the hidden files inside of the image

Answer the questions below
Using stego tools find the hidden file inside of the image

What tool did you use to find the hidden file

We have one last challenge to find our individuals

Find the last clue, crack the hash, decipher the message

Good Luck

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Use Hash cracking tools to reveal the text to the text 

Use methods like Cicada to decipher the message

Answer the questions below

Crack the Hash

What is the Hash type?

What is the Link from the hash?

Decipher the message

What is the link?

We have found the individuals we sought

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Answer the questions below

What is the song linked?

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