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title: Archived - AmateursCTF 2023
tags: [ctf-writeup, OSINT, AmateursCTF 2023]

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# Archived - AmateursCTF 2023

## Description
This challenge has been archived.

## Solution
For this challenge, I try to search on Google with the keyword `amateursCTF archive`. From this result, there's an archive of the amateursCTF on [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/opensource?tab=collection&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22%22texts%22+AND+%28Team%29%22).

![Search result from Google](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n1mdacybersec/CTF-Write-Up-Collection/main/2023/AmateursCTF/OSINT/Archived/1.png)

On this website, I search using `amateursCTF` as the keyword. I found one result from this search.

![Search result from archive.org](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n1mdacybersec/CTF-Write-Up-Collection/main/2023/AmateursCTF/OSINT/Archived/2.png)

If you open the search result, in there you'll find the download options of this archive. I choose 7z in this case.

![Downloadable files](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n1mdacybersec/CTF-Write-Up-Collection/main/2023/AmateursCTF/OSINT/Archived/3.png)

After downloading the file, there are 3 files inside the 7z archive. These files are `challenge.yml`, `flag.txt`, and `solve.txt`. You can found the flag for this challenge on `challenge.yml` and `flag.txt`.

## Flag
`amateursCTF{arch1v3d_r1ght_b3f0r3_th3_start}`