Introduction

This challenge is fairly simple. What we mainly needed to do was figure out the filetype of the rootfs file using the file command. After that, we just needed to do some basic research on how to extract the data from a SquashFS file (unsquashfs). Using grep on the entire extracted filesystem, we were able to locate the file that the flag was in.

First Impressions

After downloading the challenge file and unzipping the contents, we see three files …

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