Challenge Author: SYREAL

Category: General Skills

Difficulty: Easy

Description

Can you invoke help flags for a tool or binary? This program has extraordinarily helpful information…

Process / Notes

1. wget the file
2. cat is gibberish
3. file says its a ELF 64-bit pie executable
4. Maybe it’s a command line program?
5. man warm
6. No man page for the warm program we just got
7. the hex dump had the flag, but it looks like you’re supposed to run it with the ‘-h’ flag
8. ./warm -h
9. The flag is revealed!

7 minutes 18 seconds to complete

Hints

Core Lessons

1. Understand how to recognize an executable program
2. Understand how to run an executable program on the command line with options