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CyberPaws CTF: Week 11

Grep Analysis

The next CyberPaws CTF challenge has been released! Please submit your flag to the "Prize Pup Bot" on our Discord via DMs, using the `!submit` command! You have until our next meeting to submit. The flag will always be in the following format: Paws{ex4mpl3_fl4g}.

Category: Forensics
Challenge Name: Grep Analysis

We recovered data about a hardware dump from a network transfer between a suspicious IP and a known cyber-criminal. 

We know that the cyber-criminal was at a specific Starbucks, but there are so many people there on laptops in the security footage that we can't tell which one is him. To make matters worse, the traffic has been proxied so we can't determine the IP info for the device either.

Because threat actors tend to have preferences for software, we think getting the product name used for the hardware dump can help us narrow it down. 

Can you figure out the product name from this hardware dump? 

Note: The flag will be the alphanumeric name of the software, in all capitals and no spaces. You will need to surround it with Paws{} before submitting it, like so: Paws{PRODUCTNAME50}

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Best of Luck,
William Brooks
CyberDawgs President

Posted: November 20, 2023, 9:05 PM