: The mention of "Comix" and a large file size (718MB zip) suggests that Romulo Melkor could be involved in digital comics or art. The digital comics industry has grown significantly, offering artists and creators a platform to distribute their work directly to fans.
| Step | Tool(s) | What we learned | |------|---------|-----------------| | Identify archive | file , zipinfo | ZIP, encrypted, 718 MiB | | Guess password | zip2john → john (custom wordlist) | Password = romulo2021! | | Extract archive | unzip | Directory with README, comics, scripts | | Find hidden payload | Manual inspection ( cat README.txt , read script) | Data hidden in PNG LSBs, XOR‑obfuscated | | Pull LSB data | steghide (invoked by script) | Raw binary stream | | De‑obfuscate | xor (any xor utility) | GZIP‑compressed file | | Decompress | gzip -d | Flag revealed | romulo melkor mancin comix 718mbzip 2021
Extraction takes a few minutes (the archive contains ~2 GB of data). : The mention of "Comix" and a large
Upon extracting the ZIP archive, the following contents were found: | | Extract archive | unzip | Directory
[0g3] romulo2021!