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I'm stuck at the 3rd part of this challenge and I think it's broken. It only shows me a few lines of code followed by garbage. Or is fixing the code part of the challenge?

You don't have to fix anything, you can run it all straight away if you know what language it is. At least it was like that when I did it.

I tried another p****n interpreter, now it works

I need a hint: How can the maths deep inside be solved? Great challenge so far !

Do i have to change anything at the maths deep inside ?
I have no idea what to do with this: "...P01^:8*g"

It's not math... and you (hopefully) came across similar "things" in other challenges.

megabreit wrote:It's not math... and you (hopefully) came across similar "things" in other challenges.

That was a very good hint
First i didn't know what you want to tell me but then ...

Hello everybody,

I'm stuck at the beginning. I realized what the image wants to tell me and I used this information to create a new file. It looks perfectly when peering into the depths, header is okay and I think I can tell what kind of file it is and what is's supposed to do when accessed.

But there's my problem, I get an error that it's not a valid file when trying to execute it. Am I missing something? I tried it with Win7 x64, might that be the problem? I never had problems when creating files of the same type with the associated program, what am I doing wrong? (trying not to give too much information for these who don't know what's inside this image)

Edit: WinXP x86 - same problem, any hints, please?

KainsRache wrote:
But there's my problem, I get an error that it's not a valid file when trying to execute it.

I get exactly the same error...

Tested on WinXP/i386 and Win7/x64.

MD5 = 808105e3914a92c53fb0bc856b83382f

mmm ... i am apparently missing something ... do i have to have in-depth knowledge about the fileformat? (MZ/PE) i seem to be unable to get any file out of this with MD5 8081... nor am i able to execute it nor does any disassembler / inspector i am aware of know how to handle the file i have ...

aurora wrote:mmm ... i am apparently missing something ... do i have to have in-depth knowledge about the fileformat? (MZ/PE) i seem to be unable to get any file out of this with MD5 8081... nor am i able to execute it nor does any disassembler / inspector i am aware of know how to handle the file i have ...

You only need to recognize some file header, and if you on the right track, you will get a file with an icon.

MatRush wrote:

aurora wrote:mmm ... i am apparently missing something ... do i have to have in-depth knowledge about the fileformat? (MZ/PE) i seem to be unable to get any file out of this with MD5 8081... nor am i able to execute it nor does any disassembler / inspector i am aware of know how to handle the file i have ...

You only need to recognize some file header, and if you on the right track, you will get a file with an icon.

Do any tools I need to extract the icon？

I used a powerful image manipulation tool for the first part of this challenge!

What it is? I want to have a look!