who is it
Description¶
Description
Someone just sent you an email claiming to be Google's co-founder Larry Page but you suspect a scam. Can you help us identify whose mail server the email actually originated from? Download the email file here. Flag: picoCTF{FirstnameLastname}
Solve¶
Downloaded file contains a raw text of an e-mail with all the headers and additional data necessary to parse it and send.
From the Received
section we can gather out the informations about IPv4 of the sender.
In the row 29 we can find such line:
Received: from mail.onionmail.org (mail.onionmail.org. [173.249.33.206])
Next we can use the whois
tool that will backtrack the information about the sender.
Using command whois 173.249.33.206
we can gather necessary informations and formulate the flag which is:
Flag¶
flag
picoCTF{WilhelmZwalina}