Hashstation

Overview

• Overall difficulty for me (From 1-10 stars): ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

• Challenge difficulty: Easy

Background

Author: @JohnHammond#6971

Below is a SHA256 hash! Can you determine what the original data was, before it was hashes?

705db0603fd5431451dab1171b964b4bd575e2230f40f4c300d70df6e65f5f1c

Please wrap the original value within the flag{ prefix and } suffix to match the standard flag format.

Find The Flag

According to the challenge’s title, it’s clear that the title is referring to CrackStation! Which is an online tool that lookup all different hashes.

Let’s throw that SHA256 hash to CrackStation!

Found it!

• Flag: flag{awesome}

Conclusion

What we’ve learned:

1. Cracking SHA256 Hash via CrackStation