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Challenge

There’s something about this domain… search.icec.tf, I don’t see anything, but maybe its all about the conTEXT.

Solution

Opening the link in the browser shows an error for DNS name not resolved. Interesting… and the comment says conTEXT which suggests a DNS TXT record.

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$ dig search.icec.tf TXT

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-11ubuntu1.3-Ubuntu <<>> search.icec.tf TXT
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43529
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;search.icec.tf.                        IN      TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
search.icec.tf.         299     IN      TXT     "IceCTF{flag5_all_0v3r_the_Plac3}"

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 12 19:42:20 UTC 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 88

Flag

IceCTF{flag5_all_0v3r_the_Plac3}