Redaction-gone-wrong

Challenge: Redaction gone wrong

Category: Forensics

Point Value: 100

Author:

Description:

Now you DON’T see me. This report¹ local has some critical data in it, some of which have been redacted correctly, while some were not.
Can you find an important key that was not redacted properly?

Write-Up:

Opening the pdf and selecting the text we find the flag:

FLAG:

picoCTF{C4n_Y0u_S33_m3_fully}  

Footnotes

1. Included links to the source code may be out of date as they were what I recorded during the competition, and may be different now. ↩