# the-flag-is (200)
## Problem
I have a flag! The flag is... wait... did my PDF editor not save the flag? OH NO! I remember typing it in, can you help me find it?
(Attachments: files/flag.pdf)
## Solution
Let's have a look at the file to see what we're dealing with.
```$ cat flag.pdf %PDF-1.31 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R >>endobj2 0 obj << /Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1 >>endobj3 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /Resources << /Font << /F1 4 0 R >> >> /Contents 5 0 R >>endobj4 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /BaseFont /TimesNewRoman >>endobj5 0 obj << /Length 89 /Filter /ASCII85Decode >>stream6<#'\7PQ#?2BYt2+>GQ(+?(u.+B2ko-t6[p@ru=0A2%m[?SlCOFC-k60Qf<]0lB@!1JMFu2`,>XF\lU*2`#N'.3MT)+@T6~>endstreamendobj
xref0 50000000000 65535 f0000000010 00000 n0000000061 00000 n0000000120 00000 n0000000248 00000 n0000000324 00000 ntrailer << /Size 5 /Root 1 0 R >>startxref500%%EOF
5 0 obj << /Length 89 /Filter /ASCII85Decode >>stream6<#'\7PQ#?2BYt2+>GQ(+?(u.+B2ko-rakk+D,FuB-:o0/hSb*+B3(u78s~>endstreamendobj
xref0 10000000000 65535 f5 10000000691 00000 ntrailer << /Size 5 /Root 1 0 R /Prev 500 >>startxref831%%EOF```
These few lines particularly are interesting.
```5 0 obj << /Length 89 /Filter /ASCII85Decode >>stream6<#'\7PQ#?2BYt2+>GQ(+?(u.+B2ko-t6[p@ru=0A2%m[?SlCOFC-k60Qf<]0lB@!1JMFu2`,>XF\lU*2`#N'.3MT)+@T6~>```
It references ASCII 85 and gives us a string. Sure enough, when we decode it using ASCII 85, we get the flag.
```-t6[p@ru=0A2%m[?SlCOFC-k60Qf<]0lB@!1JMFu2`,>XF\lU*2`#N'.3(bcactf{d0n7_4g3t_4b0u7_1nCr3Men74l_uPd473s})```
