Murder Mystery
Murder Mystery
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byuctf{murdered_by_a_traitor_and_coward_whose_name_is_not_worthy_to_appear_here}
While searching for secrets of the past, you find a scrap of paper that contains the following information:
01101110011100100110100001110000011010-01011001000100110001001011110100001111June 29, 1902
Because you’re great at OSINT, you trace this information
back to a famous inscription. What is that inscription?
Flag: byuctf{inscription_with_underscores}
Note: the flag will not include the name or dates found in the inscription.
Instantly, we moved to Cyberchef for the binary conversion, and it resulted in nrhpidLKÐ
. We thought it was garbage at first, until a teammate noticed “NRHP ID” within the string, which is related to the National Register of Historic Places. Since there’s a historic date also in the description, we can immediately conclude that this is the correct path to take. We isolated the last part and converted it into decimal instead - 80002319
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Following the trail for NRHP ID 80002319
, we found this UpWiki Page About the “Jesse James Home Museum”, which is the location registered under this ID.
When we looked up “jesse james famous inscription”, we found a Smithsonian Magazine page that photographs Mr. James’ grave:
Removing the dates and names as the description specifies, the flag is byuctf{murdered_by_a_traitor_and_coward_whose_name_is_not_worthy_to_appear_here}
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