SNOWy Evening ❄️

Final Points: 205

Description

A friend of mine , Aakash has gone missing and the only thing we found is this poem…Weirdly, he had a habit of keeping his name as the password.

Link -

Download Link {Download the game from here} ==> poemm.txt

Writeup

poemm.txt

view poemm.txt

Pity, in place of love,			       	       			  
That pettiest of gifts,      	     	    		      	       	       
Is but a sugar-coating over neglect. 		 	   	  	 
Any passerby can make a gift of it 	  	   	  	   	       
To a street beggar,   	    	       		    	     	  	   
Only to forget the moment the first corner is turned.   	 
I had not hoped for anything more that day.	 	      		   
       	  	   	 	      	  	  	   	       	      
You left during the last watch of night.   		  		 
I had hoped you would say goodbye,     	   	     	 	     	 
Just say ‘Adieu’ before going away,  	 
What you had said another day,
What I shall never hear again.
In their place, just that one word,
Bound by the thin fabric of a little compassion
Would even that have been too much for you to bear?

When I first awoke from sleep
My heart fluttered with fear
Lest the time had been over.
I rushed out of bed.
The distant church clock chimed half past twelve
I sat waiting near the door of my room
Resting my head against it,
Facing the porch through which you would come out.

From the title of the Question, I got a hint of the word snow on searching a bit, I got to know about stegsnow

Installation

for Ubuntu/Debian

and I use Arch btw … —> use tar and use make

Then the command I used

stegnow -C -p "Aakash" poemm.txt

OR

from where you installed snow

./snow path_to_file/poemm.txt

The output I got—

https://pastebin.com/HVQfa14Z

Which was a pastebin link

On analyzing it, it looked like something a cow would say — moooo

so I searched for cow cipher/encryption and got this link

on pasting the long cow speech and derypting it we finally got the flag!!

yay -S done

Flag

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