Whispers of the Feathered Messenger

Challenge

In a world where secrets flutter through the air, the bluehen carries a hidden message. A message that has been salted.... however its still a message... maybe the bluehen ignores the salt. This image holds more than meets the eye.

Attached image:

Solution

We start with the file command, which already give us interesting information.

That comment looks like base64 so let's decode it using CyberChef.

So now we have a password, but where do I put it?

Using steghide I managed to extract a file from the picture.

Let's see what this file is really about...

So we can use openssl to decrypt the file and enter the password we found earlier.

Looking at our decrypted file:

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