Challenge Description

We tried every single URL scan and sandbox system we could to determine if this was malware or not, but now the link is restricted to a company or someone:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RJ6SABq7Kbn95NS8cp911h-eMhLWxlHwr6csHvBAjM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RJ6SABq7Kbn95NS8cp911h-eMhLWxlHwr6csHvBAjM/edit

We think we need to go deeper with Hybrid Analysis. But someone might have deleted 7965acf137539490de0abaa2569a2765745957be06e0d5bd6cea395b27b3b036.

Flag Proof

CTF{889251e51ef5618e78a72f049554686d3d45828c3ec42d5506991f55e9e0d568}

Summary

Used the WaybackMachine to get information about a malware scan report that was deleted from Hybrid Analysis and urlscan.io.

Details

The description is mentioning something about a piece of information that once was on the Internet. However, as a general lesson, once you upload something on the Internet, it becomes almost impossible to remove it and its traces completely.

Therefore, I just went to WaybackMachine (https://web.archive.org/), a place where web pages are saved as snapshots, like a history (people also use this archive to find old/removed webpages, or old versions of existing websites).

Because we are given a SHA-256 hash of a file that might have been uploaded on https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/ (then deleted), I used the original site to figure out the URL format for a sample file. Then I took the given hash and made the complete URL for the WaybackMachine:

https://note.thefewchosen.com/pad/uploads/23517442-3cdf-45bb-bbea-d57323d7e366.png

From here we can access the report on urlscan.io, which was also saved in the WaybackMachine:

https://note.thefewchosen.com/pad/uploads/e19ee549-fbb0-4ba5-9a67-9f28fc3610f0.png

And then apply OCR on the found Screenshot, which contains the flag.