Tags: stegano_midi
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For this challenge, we are given a website which is playing the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack.
Looking at the source code, we find the soundtrack file, 2001.mid.
One way to hide messages in MIDI files is using the "Program change" message. This is a type of event which does not correspond to any audio, but instead is used to control device configurations.
We downloaded stegano_midi, a program which performs MIDI steganography using the method mentioned above. We made it into an executable, and used the command stegano_midi --reveal --file=2001.mid to reveal the message hidden in the file, if any.
Fortunately, we obtained a base-64-encoded string, which, when decoded, resulted in the flag.
