parseltongue

Challenge Text

Author: @JohnHammond#6971

Hisssss, can you ssssee ssssome sssssecretssss?

Challenge Work

We are given a file which turns out to be compile Python byte-code (.pyc).

parseltongue [master●●] % file parseltongue
parseltongue: python 3.8 byte-compiled

We find online that we can decompile python byte-code using pip modules, in this case uncompyle6.

parseltongue [master●●] % uncompyle6 parseltongue

We are then left with an unholy monstrosity of a script. After adding print statements to the bottom of the script to literally print out all variables defined, we get our flag.