📊 Challenge Overview

Category	Details	Additional Info
🏆 Event	PicoCTF - 2025	Event Link
🔰 Category	Misc	🎯
💎 Points	10	Out of 500 total
⭐ Difficulty	🟢 Easy	Personal Rating: 0/10
👤 Author	syreal	Profile
🎮 Solves (At the time of flag submission)	7.312	solve rate
📅 Date	15-03-2025	PicoCTF - 2025
🦾 Solved By	mH4ck3r0n3	Team:

📝 Challenge Information

Play this short game to get familiar with terminal applications and some of the most important rules in scope for picoCTF. Connect to the program with netcat: $ nc verbal-sleep.picoctf.net 55716

🎯 Challenge Files & Infrastructure

Provided Files

1	Files: None

🔍 Initial Analysis

First Steps

The first thing I did was connect with netcat:

Since the process is already "exploitation", let’s move on to the next phase.

🎯 Solution Path

Exploitation Steps

Exploitation

I continued pressing enter until I received a prompt. I selected c (though I think it’s pretty much indifferent, even though I didn’t try honestly), and then we are asked to play a game by selecting a. Once selected, after a few enter presses, the flag is printed.

Flag capture

🛠️ Exploitation Process

Approach

The automatic exploit performs exactly the same steps as manually, by connecting to the server, and extracts the flag from the response using a regex.

•  Exploit

🚩 Flag Capture

Flag

picoCTF{m1113n1um_3d1710n_fc649bc5}

Proof of Execution

Screenshot of successful exploitation

🔧 Tools Used

Tool	Purpose
Python	Exploit

💡 Key Learnings

Skills Improved

• Binary Exploitation
• Reverse Engineering
• Web Exploitation
• Cryptography
• Forensics
• OSINT
• Miscellaneous

📊 Final Statistics

Created: 15-03-2025 • Last Modified: 15-03-2025 *Author: mH4ck3r0n3 • Team: *