parakeet_v2

In this challenge, you have to find the flag hidden in a Parquet file. Parquet is a format used in artificial intelligence to store tabular information efficiently. You can find information about the Parquet file format here. There are many online tools that can be used to see analyze the file... you just need to find the right one!

v2: This time, it was hidden a bit better.

Helpful resources

You might want to dig around in the file format a little more... Try reading information from non-obvious places.

• https://parquet.apache.org/docs/

Solution

The flag is in the creator field metadata, but this time it is not in plain text. It is chunked and stored as single-characters and cannot be strings-ed.