[Challenge] Devil's swapper

[0x00pf (pico)]

Your weekend challenge is here!

This is a simple challenge. Do not look for very sophisticated stuff. You know… the devil’s in the details.

• Boring to death
• Easy
• Interesting
• WTF

#Objective
You have to find the secret key and the secret message. That’s it

Extra points for solving the challenge using standard tools!

#Hints
There is a hint in the binary itself. Other than that:

Hint 1:Use the basic tools first to get extra information, and look for strange things
Hint 2:Fine… by now you should be able to recognize ROT13 text
Hint 3:Maybe there is some obfuscated code somewhere

Binary

You can generate the binary from the dump below using the following command:

cat textfile | base64 -d | gunzip > challenge && chmod +x challenge

Good luck!

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[twyK]

Found the ROT13 text, is the same thing of the hint on the binary?

Btw i’m too noob can’t proceed, need to learn some tools >:

[0x00pf (pico)]

You are getting closer!

Yes, it is. Now you should know which tool you can use and which part of its man page to check…

[neolex]

I’m waiting for the solution too …

I don’t find anything else than the rot13 string , I tried to use some dd conv but I don’t find the solution

[z3n (Zalman)]

Oh man, good timing!
Thanks

[0x00pf (pico)]

OK guys… you almost have the solution. Thanks to all of you for trying this challenge!

So this is another hint

By now you know which tool you have to use and you should have found a bunch of transformations to use. The title of the challenge gives you a hint on which transformation to apply. Then you have to do a bit of reverse engineering to figure out which part of the program has to be patched.

You can use the suggested tool or write your own tool to restore the binary and finish the reversing

I will wait one or two days more before publishing the solution. In the meantime you can also try (Late Easter Challenge)… I know @_py has solved it but we haven’t published a solution yet so… hack fun

[_py]

Kek, I was just explaining to some of the members your Easter challenge, I hope not many noticed it on IRC.

[_py]

Thank you @0x00pf for the challenge ( and @kowalski for trying to help me with some command-line-fu) ! I will not post the full solution yet since it looks like some folks are close.

[0x00pf (pico)]

Congrats mate!