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Simple Steganography

Think the flag is somewhere in there. Would you help me find it? hint-" Steghide Might be Helpfull" Minions1.jpeg 

Let's use the strings utility to extract the strings in the image file.

$ strings 894 | head
JFIF
0Photoshop 3.0
8BIM
myadmin
!1#%)+...
383-7(-.+
&/-/-//-++------------------------+---.-----/------
$3br
%&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz

The steghide utility allows users to extract data from image and audio files.

$ steghide extract -sf 894
Enter passphrase:
wrote extracted data to "raw.txt".

We can now use the cat command to view the contents of the extracted file.

$ cat raw.txt
AEMAVABGAGwAZQBhAHIAbgB7AHQAaABpAHMAXwBpAHMAXwBmAHUAbgB9

That looks like it is encrypted using Base64. Let's decode it using Cyberchef.

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