Scan Surprise Write-up

This CTF is introductory and simple. The CTF flag is within a QR code file that is presented to the user. After over thinking the challenge for a bit (see below) I realized I can simply scan the QR code.

This challenge topic is related to Forensics and is a light introduction to potential encoding schemes that can be used to obfuscate data.

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/encryption-encoding-hashing/