This is from the 2021 Vishwa CTF
For this challenge, we were given the following clue and a .gzf file:
The “gzf” extension was not familiar and there wasn’t much information online. I did a static file analysis and found some interesting text:
I ran binwalk against it with the extract “-e” switch:
Inspecting the resulting file “FOLDER_ITEM”, I decided to run strings against it:
It yielded a lot of results, so I grep the strings command for “vishwaCTF”:
Now I have the flag!
