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Eazy Network Analysis

BrainHack 2023

Published: December 30, 2025

Last Updated: December 30, 2025

Flag format: CDDC2023{md5(Time of successful login to FTP_found character string)}

Solution

  • No. 20 shows login successful, if your time display settings isn’t already converted to UTC, go to: View > Time Display Format > UTC Date and Time of Day

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UTC Time of login: 230428-07:59:40

  • Further analysis of the packets shows that the user uploaded a few files to the server under the FTP-DATA protocol which include Confidential1.docx, Confidential2.docx, Confidential3.docx, Confidential4.docx, Confidential5.docx. There is good reason to believe that the flag is in one of these documents.

  • To extract the files from the packets, simply do the following: File > Export Objects > FTP-DATA > Save All [files to any preferred directory]

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  • Opening Confidential3.docx will give you the second half of the flag: PcApng_@N@ly5i5_15_3@zzzZZzzzy~!

Run 230428-07:59:40_PcApng_@N@ly5i5_15_3@zzzZZzzzy~! through an MD5 hash generator.

Flag: CDDC2023{1b8ab1433f7dbdd467193e3858b81206}

Tools Used

  • Wireshark for network analysis