Difficulty
leetCategories
miscDescription
Like a powerful, dark storm, I will make my presence known to the world. Like a seeping mist, I will creep into the dogs’ center of power, and make them quake in fear at the very mention of my name!
Oh, Mr. Tinkles?
Author
cfi2017
Service
Challenge has a remote instance.
Overview
We get access to a web interface that allows us to authenticate by meowing:

Looking at the web requests, we can see that it just sends a webm audio file:
POST /api/verify HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----geckoformboundaryfeeb6d8b32ad9b49e0b1cd8d8ca5f372
Content-Length: 10818
------geckoformboundaryfeeb6d8b32ad9b49e0b1cd8d8ca5f372
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="audio"; filename="voice.webm"
Content-Type: audio/webm
<binary data>
------geckoformboundaryfeeb6d8b32ad9b49e0b1cd8d8ca5f372--
{
"best_label": "Cat",
"cat_score": 0.0006963247433304787,
"flag": null,
"top3": [
{
"label": "class_35",
"score": 0.4417385756969452
},
{
"label": "class_500",
"score": 0.05353209003806114
},
{
"label": "class_0",
"score": 0.03392855077981949
}
],
"win": false,
"win_score": 0.99
}
Solution
I just tried out the first random cat meow sound from the internet using curl <challenge>/api/verify -F audio=@meow.webm and got a 99% confidence.
After cropping it a bit in Audacity, I got the following audio, which returned the flag:
Flag:
dach2026{h33333r333_K1tty-k1tTy_k1TtY}