Challenge Description

A friend from Mexic sent me the attached picture on Telegram. What does it mean?

Flag is not in a standard format.

Flag proof

SISENIORILOVETACOBELLVERYVERYMUCH

Summary

Use binwalk to extract the hidden image in the original image, and decrypt the code in the original image with the cipher from the hidden image.

Details

The image we are given has another image hidden inside of it. Extract usingbinwalk -e mexican_specialties.jpg

We have a wheel.png

http://thefewchosen.com:8080/pad/uploads/9ff1c5011632de376854b7600.png

We use https://www.onlineocr.net/ to get the text from the image:

193597054061417009124122832027299354313890000518250031445191998160

The image suggests this is mexican army cipher, so we try decoding using the default ring setup at https://www.dcode.fr/mexican-army-cipher-wheel.

We get: SISENIORILOVETACOBELLVERYVERYMUCH