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Hourglass - Forensics

This challenge provided ova file of windows 10 operating system. According to the description we need to find something suspicious in the system.

I searched in different areas that might contain interesting or suspicious data.

I did not find anything until I entered the Task Scheduler and noticed a suspicious task that mention some path (C:\Windows\DiagTrack\Settings\settings.txt)

Here we can see the 'txt' file mentioned in the task suspicious task, which looks like a Base64 encoded string.

This is the decoded string, which is the flag:

uoftctf{T4sK_Sch3Dul3r_FUN}

Original writeup (https://www.thesecuritywind.com/post/uoftctf-2024-writeups#viewer-ct2fx1182923).