### Slightly cheesy solution

Open with a hex editor. The description of the challenge seems suspicious -- maybe let's search for "image"?

Fourth result shows something suspicious nearby:

<tiff:Artist>Maybe here : 150 164 164 160 163 72 57 57 146 151 154 145 163 56 144 157 170 142 151 156 56 147 147 57 157 63 126 144 162 115 160 164 56 160 156 147</tiff:Artist>

Decimal to ASCII doesn't work. But, notice how each digit is less than 8 -- maybe this is octal!
Octal to ASCII results in [https://files.doxbin.gg/o3VdrMpt.png](http://). This is probably what we're looking for.

We can try using a photo editor like Photopea to unstretch the photo, which shows several base32 encoded strings! But, we're missing parts of the strings, and typing in some of them doesn't really produce results.

Using binwalk, meanwhile, produces the following result:

DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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0 0x0 PNG image, 500 x 501, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
41 0x29 Zlib compressed data, default compression
132290 0x204C2 MySQL MISAM index file Version 7

Though it might seem promising, in general, binwalk's recognization of a MySQL MISAM index file for any forensics problem is often misleading.

Let's go back to base32 encoded strings. Given its evident inclusion in the image, it's probably part of this challenge!

If you decode the portion of the base32 string we are shown under the red woman, you'll get this: VENQMV@
Huh... VENQMV is an odd sequence of characters. Maybe VENQMV is base64 encoded? Put it into a base64 decoder, and you'll actually get TCP1

So we're on the right track! Now we just have to figure out the rest of the base32 string. Well, if you take a look at the photo again, it almost seems as if the left side of the photo belongs on the ride side... aha! The entire string is in the photo, just split up because of the photo's editing.

The entire base32 string ends up being

KZCU4UKNKZBDOY2HKJWVQMTHGBSGUTTGJZDDSUKNK5HDAZCYJF5FQMSKONSFQSTGJZDTK22YPJLG6TKXLIYGMULPHU======

This is decoded into

VENQMVB7cGRmX2g0djNfNF9QMWN0dXIzX2JsdXJfNG5kXzVoMWZ0fQo=

Put VENQMVB7cGRmX2g0djNfNF9QMWN0dXIzX2JsdXJfNG5kXzVoMWZ0fQo= into a base64 decoder to receive the flag!

TCP1P{pdf_h4v3_4_P1ctur3_blur_4nd_5h1ft}