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Hi, just as we talked during a break, you have this file here and check if something is wrong with it. That's the only thing we found strange with this suspect, I hope there will be a password for his external drive Bye dontopen.pdf

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Opening the PDF doesn't give us anything of importance.

Let's use the strings utility to view all the strings present in the file.

$ strings 957 | tail -15
== SECRET DATA DONT LOOK AT THIS ==
external:Q1RGbGVhcm57KV8xbDB3M3kwVW0wMG15MTIzfQ==
pin:1234
password:MTIzMVdST05HOWlzamRuUEFTU1dPUkQ=
endstream
endobj
xref
0000149877 00000 n
13 1
0000150079 00000 n
trailer
<</Size 14/Root 8 0 R/Info 1 0 R/Prev 149539>>
startxref
150295
%%EOF

The external and password fields look like they are Base64 encoded. We can decode them using CyberChef.

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CTFlearn{)_1l0w3y0Um00my123}