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Writeup for Scripting room on Tryhackme.com

URL for this room is https://tryhackme.com/room/scripting

Table of Contents

• Base64
• Gotta Catch em All
• Encrypted Server Chit Chat

Base64

The given file has been base64 encoded 50 times. The task is to decode the string and retrieve the flag. The script is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import base64

name = "b64.txt"
file = open(name)

payload = file.read()

for i in range(50):
    # Decode the string and pass it to the payload for next iteration
    result = base64.b64decode(payload)
    payload = result

file.close()
print(result)

The script file is located here.

Gotta Catch em All

Encrypted Server Chit Chat