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Writeup to the FLARE-ON 7 Challenge
Contents
- Introduction
- dat challenge
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
Introduction
Welcome to the Seventh Flare-On Challenge! This is a simple game. Win it by any means necessary and the victory screen will reveal the flag. Enter the flag here on this site to score and move on to the next level. This challenge is written in Python and is distributed as a runnable EXE and matching source code for your convenience. You can run the source code directly on any Python platform with PyGame if you would prefer (Challenge message).
On the sixth of August, 2011, FireEye announced their seventh annual FLARE-ON challenge, where reverse engineers of varying skill levels from around the world were encouraged to work out the the solutions to twelve reverse engineering problems. I entered and only solved one out of the twelve challenges (mainly because I had to do schoolwork and I’m still a supern00b).
dat challenge
The challenge was called Fidler, and I started by downloading the 7z archive and extracting the files. Here’s what I got:
