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The secret of a Queen

Write-up author: jon-brandy

DESCRIPTION:

Decrypt the code and find the Queen's secret!

HINT:

  • NONE

STEPS:

  1. First, unzip the .zip file given.

RESULT

image

  1. Check the file type, to make sure it's really is png or not.

RESULT

image

  1. It's really is, now let's use zsteg.

RESULT

image

  1. Got nothing.
  2. I did binwalk, foremost and got no hidden files inside.
  3. Let's see the image then.

RESULT

image

  1. Confused what's this.
  2. So i did a small outsource.
  3. Turns out it's a MARY STUART CODE.
  4. I use this online tool to decode the code.

RESULT

image

  1. Hmm.. The plaintext we got give us the wrong flag.
HTB{THEBABINGTONPASOT}
  1. So i did a small outsource again about babington - queen mary and found this.

RESULT

image

  1. Got us the correct flag!

FLAG

HTB{THEBABINGTONPLOT}