mxm0z on cyber

In this write-up I will be explaining how I solved the challenge growingup of the CyberSoc CTF | Cyber Detective. The challenge windows displays the following information: Once again, all we have is James Markson's Twitter profile. The challenge is asking us the place where James spent his childhood. In other words, the place where was raised, not necessarily where he was born. This reminded me of a not-so-common profile bio that I saw the first time I visited James' profile. He used a combination a 3 words separated by a dot with each one having 3 slashes at the beginning. That was a kind of word combination/encoding that I have never seen before. My first move was to Google those terms and see if the results contained any clues that could indicate a place/location. After spending some time searching for them, I didn't find anything relevant enough to tie them to a place in the map. So I decided to go back to the Twitter profile and do the same thing I did in the previous

In this write-up I'll show the resolution for the voteforme challenge of the CyberSoc | Cyber Detective CTF. The challenge provides us the following information: After accessing James Markson Twitter profile, there is no direct indication of his politicals views. At least no in his profile description. I decided to browse his tweets to see if there was any clue of his political bias. Quickly, I found a tweet of Feb 10, 2020 which he retweed and made a comment about a Barack Obama's tweet. The comment was affectionate towards Barack Obama. Based on the information contained in this tweet, I assumed that James supported Obama's party. Some people might immediately know which party is this. However, let's assume we have to find out that too. With a quick Google search looking for Obama's party it is possible to find that out and get the flag.