Hacktoria | Friendly Fire – Write-Up
After a couple of months without a CTF I decided to get my feed wet again. Good thing, that Hacktoria has a lot of challenges for me to solve now. So here is how I was able to solve this one.
If you want to try this challenge yourself, find it here: https://hacktoria.com/contracts/friendly-fire/
So in short, the task is to identify this tank and from which country it is.
![](https://hacktoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/friendly-fire-start-materials-1024x682.jpg)
Like always it is best to start with the low-hanging fruits. So I simply put this into Google's image search and check the results:
![](https://eduard.schwarzkopf.center/content/images/2023/03/grafik-14.png)
Bingo! First try, and a hot path. Seems like the tank I'm looking at is a Merkava Mk 4m
Now simply search for the model and open the Wikipedia article about it:
![](https://eduard.schwarzkopf.center/content/images/2023/03/grafik-15.png)
So it is from Israel
. This has everything I need to solve this puzzle.
Everything put correctly in place gives me the reward card. An easy and cool challenge.