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[Day 1] Are We Okay???

OSINTBY: 4ΣiΣFebruary 21, 2026

The Challenge:

Viewing the challenge, We see this:

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The Challenge contains a Downloadable ZIP file and the Chall itself is a Terminal view

Now I can Be noticing some stuff from the terminal View:

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Inside the artwork we can see a text that is when combine will form an email, areweokay123@gmail.com, This Info will absolutely be very benficial

Also we can see that the user is making a pythonscript that appears to be creating a password protected ZIP file, And the password is the Favourite 2 Drinks of the Artist, Which is a good Info that will help us unzipping the file

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With that given, We can start solving the challenge, for the Email Analysis, We’ll be using Epieos, One of the best Email OSINT tools, Which will help us to Identify registered accounts with that Email

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Now Making the search about that Email, We can manage to get these links:

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After Checking the Google Calendar link, We can see that there was note of an encoded text :

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When Googling The Azure Lab Diaries, We found this article written by Mahmoud Elfawair:

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Now Looking after Mahmoud Elfawair, Who we know by now that he’s the artist, We can see a link for his LinkedIn at the End of the Blog:

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We see a post of him holding a Drink in his hand:

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And there it is, We now have the Drinks, Matcha_Monster, Unzipping the file and getting the flag:

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Aaaaand THAT'S IT for this Chall

See you Bokra Ya Basha

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