First Find

Description

Unzip this archive and find the file named ‘uber-secret.txt’

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NO HINTS

Lets dive in ;)

1. Tree Diagram of the folder

┌──(0xneobyte㉿0xNeoShell)-[~/drop-in]
└─$ tree
.
├── 13771.txt.utf-8
├── 14789.txt.utf-8
├── acceptable_books
│   ├── 17879.txt.utf-8
│   ├── 17880.txt.utf-8
│   └── more_books
│       └── 40723.txt.utf-8
├── adequate_books
│   ├── 44578.txt.utf-8
│   ├── 46804-0.txt
│   └── more_books
│       └── 1023.txt.utf-8
└── satisfactory_books
    ├── 16021.txt.utf-8
    ├── 23765.txt.utf-8
    └── more_books
        └── 37121.txt.utf-8

2. tree -a?

┌──(0xneobyte㉿0xNeoShell)-[~/drop-in]
└─$ tree -a
.
├── 13771.txt.utf-8
├── 14789.txt.utf-8
├── acceptable_books
│   ├── 17879.txt.utf-8
│   ├── 17880.txt.utf-8
│   └── more_books
│       └── 40723.txt.utf-8
├── adequate_books
│   ├── 44578.txt.utf-8
│   ├── 46804-0.txt
│   └── more_books
│       ├── 1023.txt.utf-8
│       └── .secret
│           └── deeper_secrets
│               └── deepest_secrets
│                   └── uber-secret.txt
└── satisfactory_books
    ├── 16021.txt.utf-8
    ├── 23765.txt.utf-8
    └── more_books
        └── 37121.txt.utf-8
 
10 directories, 12 files

either way we can use find . -name "uber-secret.txt" that will find that file for us. OUTPUT : ./adequate_books/more_books/.secret/deeper_secrets/deepest_secrets/uber-secret.txt

3. Lets see inside that file

┌──(0xneobyte㉿0xNeoShell)-[~/drop-in]
└─$ cat adequate_books/more_books/.secret/deeper_secrets/deepest_secrets/uber-secret.txt
picoCTF{f1nd_15_f457_ab443fd1}

FLAG : picoCTF{f1nd_15_f457_ab443fd1}