Magicplay

Description

Dwayne's mischevious nephew played around in his pc and corrupted a very important file.. Help dwayne recover it!

Author: Rakhul

Downloads: magic_play.png

Solution

└─$ display ./magic_play.png 
display-im6.q16: improper image header './magic_play.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/4107.

└─$ pngcheck -v ./magic_play.png
File: ./magic_play.png (250137 bytes)
  this is neither a PNG or JNG image nor a MNG stream
ERRORS DETECTED in ./magic_play.png

Looking into the header with Hex Editor:

magicplay-1

It looks like header chunks are messed up, so let's fix them.

Correct chunk names can be found in wikipedia: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PNG#Critical_chunks

Fixed image:

magicplay-2

magicplay-3

Flag: dsc{COrrupt3d_M4g1C_f1Ag}