Reconfiguration [Cyber Apocalypse 2023]

Before even starting to solve the challenge, we must first read the description, as it could reveal some valuable clues.

We can see that they mention visualizing the data, and Pandora used scatterplots in particular to visualize this data. We can start from here and work our way to the flag.

The most popular tool to pre-process, process, transform and visualize data is arguably Jupyter Notebook, in combination with the libraries pandas, and matplotlib.

The following code snippet is what we use

The results show:

Then we can finally see the flag:

💡 HTB{sc4tter_pl0ts_4_th3_w1n}

(In case the output isn’t as visible, you can enter the csv file into a different scatter plot visualizer. We suggest csvplot.com)