Killer Queen CTF 2021

Every Breath You Take [193 pts]

I would play video games and always feel like somebody’s watchin’ me. So I changed my username into my current one. Find the username I was using before sampinkerton.


kqctf{wh0s_pl41ng_7r1k50n_m3?__e2q3}


tl;dr

Introduction

Based on this, it seems like we should find a gaming profile with username sampinkerton, likely Steam.

We can directly check if a user with that username exists by going to https://steamcommunity.com/id/sampinkerton. This does return a user, and we can click the small dropdown to find other handles for this user. There is only one other:

wh0s_pl41ng_7r1k50n_m3?__e2q3

which wrapped in kqctf{} is the flag.

kqctf{wh0s_pl41ng_7r1k50n_m3?__e2q3}

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1 November 2021
Tags: <forensics/> <osint/>