Inaccessible

Challenge description:

Find the flag.

The challenge gave us a file asisfor.iso that was a modified damn small linux.

You could login with an empty password and find a file /root/secret.txt with a bunch of base64 encoded data. If you extracted the contents of the iso, you could find that the file was written at boot time from different boot-up scripts. After recovering the bas64 string and decoding it, it resulted in a corrupted .gif image.

The corrupted gif was enough to recognize most of the characters of the flag, so that we could brute force the rest from the hash given on the submission page.