Deadly arthropod

When I did this, I found that there is a mistake with the first letter of one of the words being in front of the string and not being put in the correct place. Just try to make the most “legit” sentence you can out of the letters that are there.

hmm, I have been playing with mappings. I keep getting the first two faux flags no matter what, but the next one doesn’t make sense. I think I must find some mapping that is unique to that device. In my print debugs, I am getting a couple numbers that repeat multiple times. Not sure what that is about.

@waywardsun said:
hmm, I have been playing with mappings. I keep getting the first two faux flags no matter what, but the next one doesn’t make sense. I think I must find some mapping that is unique to that device. In my print debugs, I am getting a couple numbers that repeat multiple times. Not sure what that is about.

Ah, yeah those two numbers that you haven’t figured out yet are VERY important to solving the challenge. Once you find the correct list of mappings and figure those out, you will get it quickly after that.

Well, it is good to know I am on the right track. Thanks!

@waywardsun said:
Well, it is good to know I am on the right track. Thanks!

For sure. I found a certain PDF file that has mappings for USB_HID devices of the type of device that is being used… no spoilerino… :slight_smile:

Still at a deadlock with this one. I have the key and it’s a discernible key… makes s3nse and it’s in the right HTB{key} format… just not accepting it. I looked at a certain PDF with USB_HID device key mappings and also looked at a certain h file that had these mappings listed. Wrote a script to parse/iterate over the needed data and there are potentially two keys that aren’t 100% what they are. I’m not finding a device-specific (or product specific) PDF… Just not sure where to go with this. I’ve spent a week on this and i keep coming up with the same answer and no new resources. Anyone have a nudge on this? It’s driving me up a wall (because the key looks to be correct).

If you have a key that looks legitimate in HTB{} format, check the logic of your parser - you’ll need to wrap the input around in certain cases.

@kophjager263 - you could PM me the key you come up with and I can try to figure out where you’re misstepping and then point you to a way to see it yourself… :slight_smile:

@kophjager263 said:
Still at a deadlock with this one. I have the key and it’s a discernible key… makes s3nse and it’s in the right HTB{key} format… just not accepting it. I looked at a certain PDF with USB_HID device key mappings and also looked at a certain h file that had these mappings listed. Wrote a script to parse/iterate over the needed data and there are potentially two keys that aren’t 100% what they are. I’m not finding a device-specific (or product specific) PDF… Just not sure where to go with this. I’ve spent a week on this and i keep coming up with the same answer and no new resources. Anyone have a nudge on this? It’s driving me up a wall (because the key looks to be correct).

I’m in the same boat, stuck for some days, I have the key also, and it make senses to me, but it’s not accepting it either.

Couldn’t find anything special for this device model …

I’m sure i’m missing something, but what? Any clue?

I think i am on the same problem as others i think. I found email and the password for. But then i got strange 2 codes that i can’t put anywhere. Any hints for this 2 codes? PM please.

oooo i am so stupid i figure it out.

@escugs said:
oooo i am so stupid i figure it out.

could you please explain?

@GRIMREAPER There is song two the left one to the right

I hope this will help you with out putting spoilers.

upper case or lower case matters for fill the flag on the box?

@mokrea I assume it matters because the correct string has both upper and lower case chars.
@grimreaper think about what the USB device is and what those “2 strange codes” @escugs mentioned map to

copy pasting was the reason it wasn’t accepting in my case. entered it manually and it worked fine…

Someone mind PM’ing me, I’ve got it sorted but the flag doesn’t seem to want to take.

pm me

It is really worth mentioning that copy and paste is an issue for the solution. I spent the last 3 hours attempting to copy/paste the correct answer in only to have it rejected. I read the post from Cryo (above) tried typing it directly in and it worked a treat. Great Challenege though!!

i’m stuck, can someone help me pls. i got the 2 strange codes. tks