Santa has asked you for some help opening a wishlist from a tech-savvy kid
Do 7zip decompression. If you do just cat conversation.txt
, you won't see the flag:
...
sike... nothing here. have some snow instead_the_y34r}
...
However, the flag is there just hidden behind line feed character.
If you open the file in vim, hexdump or pretty much any editor, you will see the flag:
$ hexdump -C conversation.txt
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00001030 20 0d 0a 09 20 0d 0a 09 20 78 6d 61 73 7b 31 74 | ... ... xmas{1t|
00001040 73 5f 74 68 33 5f 6d 30 73 74 5f 77 30 6e 64 33 |s_th3_m0st_w0nd3|
00001050 72 66 75 6c 5f 74 31 6d 65 5f 30 66 5f 74 68 65 |rful_t1me_0f_the|
00001060 5f 79 33 34 72 7d 0d 73 69 6b 65 2e 2e 2e 20 6e |_y34r}.sike... n|
...