TXT Message (Huntress CTF 2024)

Author: @JohnHammond

Hmmm, have you seen some of the strange DNS records for the ctf.games domain? One of them sure is odd… (In the task, odd linked to the wikipedia article for the od programme)

This was a fun warm-up. Using an online DNS record search, I got this TXT record for ctf.games:

passing it through an octal-to-ascii converter gave the flag.