PicoCTF — Obedient Cat

Introduction

The very first PicoCTF challenge we encounter involves an obedient cat. It’s a beginner-friendly task meant to show us how solving challenges in this competition works. Here’s what the challenge presents us with:

Overview Of the Challenge

The challenge informs us that the flag we seek is contained within a file, written plainly in text format. To retrieve the flag, we’re instructed to download the file and access its content.

One method involves right-clicking the file, opting to download it, and then opening it using a text editor to view its contents.

Alternatively, the hints suggest a different approach: using a terminal. By employing the ‘wget’ command to download the file and ‘cat’ command to display its content, we can also unveil the flag.