Paper_Trail

Paper Trail

Misc

Challenge

Something is suspicious about defund's math papers. See if you can find anything in the network packets we've intercepted from his computer.

Author: defund

Solution

In Wireshark, right click > Follow TCP Stream

PRIVMSG defund :I have to confide in someone, even if it's myself
PRIVMSG defund :my publications are all randomly generated :(
PRIVMSG defund :a
PRIVMSG defund :c
PRIVMSG defund :t
PRIVMSG defund :f
PRIVMSG defund :{
PRIVMSG defund :f
PRIVMSG defund :a
PRIVMSG defund :k
PRIVMSG defund :e
PRIVMSG defund :_
PING chat.freenode.net
PRIVMSG defund :m
PRIVMSG defund :a
PRIVMSG defund :t
PRIVMSG defund :h
PRIVMSG defund :_
PRIVMSG defund :p
PRIVMSG defund :a
PRIVMSG defund :p
PRIVMSG defund :e
PRIVMSG defund :r
PRIVMSG defund :s
PRIVMSG defund :}

Flag

actf{fake_math_papers}