Shuffle

Points: 100
Category: Binary

Find the string before randomizing.

shuffle

Hint: None

Write up

In the main function we can see that,

Before the srand function is called , the program pushes some of the values in consecutive memory locations. The commands are of the type -

$0x53,%eax

%al,0x24(%esp)

It means that , the value ` 0x53 ` is pushed in the memory location ` 0x24 . 0x53 ` when converted from hexadecimal to ASCII is ‘S’ .

Since it is a string of hardcoded values, when we convert it to ASCII (and neglecting the \0 ), we get the flag-

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