Hidden Wave [Unbreakable 2023]
The file looked perfectly normal and sounded perfectly normal. Extracting the LSB is quite a common technique to try and was fortunately successful.
# Use wave package (native to Python) for reading the received audio file
import wave
# Read file as binary stream do not forget to change the file name
song = wave.open("hidden-wave.wav", mode='rb')
# Convert audio to byte array
frame_bytes = bytearray(list(song.readframes(song.getnframes())))
# Extract the LSB of each byte
extracted = [frame_bytes[i] & 1 for i in range(len(frame_bytes))]
# Convert byte array back to string
string = "".join(chr(int("".join(map(str,extracted[i:i+8])),2)) for i in range(0,len(extracted),8))
# Cut off at the filler characters
decoded = string.split("###")[0]
# Print the extracted text
print(f"Sucessfully decoded: {decoded}")
song.close()
Decoded Flag
CTF{UNZSFEFEWF@SDF-NOICE}