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Corrupt Transmission
Challenge
We intercepted this image, but it must have gotten corrupted during the transmission. Can you try and fix it? corrupt.png
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$ pngcheck -v corrupt.png
File: corrupt.png (469363 bytes)
File is CORRUPTED. It seems to have suffered EOL conversion.
It was probably transmitted in text mode.
ERRORS DETECTED in corrupt.png
We open it in a hex editor and see that the header is corrupted, and only thing we had to do was fix this header to fix the file
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IceCTF{t1s_but_4_5cr4tch}