Vishwa CTF: Reverse Engineering: Rotations (472)

This is from the 2021 Vishwa CTF

For this challenge, we are given the following clue and a ELF binary:

After some preliminary poking at the file, I execute it in the terminal to see what it does. I see that it waits for input from the user and replies with “EWWWW DUMBBB” and exits:

Next I load it into my debugger and inspect the code:

I see that there is cmp performed and it results in a jmp to the failure message:

I modify the jmp and fill it with NOPs:

I then provide some random input and watch for its response:

It looks like a scrambled flag. Most likely a simple shift cipher… maybe a ROT (rotation). I head over to rot13.com and decode it:

Now I have the flag!

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