Imagemagick on Adamino CTF Writeups

ImageMagick

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0100

ImageMagick: Command-Line Image Surgery

ImageMagick is a scriptable image-manipulation toolkit — think Photoshop operations you can run from the terminal and loop over. In CTFs it earns its keep for the unglamorous but constant tasks: stitching image fragments back together, cropping a region out of a larger picture, converting formats, and flattening layers. No GUI, no clicking, fully reproducible.

Magic or Not

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:13:04 +0200

Challenge Name: misc_magic-or-not

Category: Misc

Difficulty: Easy

Author: H4N5

Challenge Description

As an intern at Brunner Corporation, I developed a cutting-edge image obfuscation algorithm, designed to hide sensitive image data.

I’m confident it’s secure, but the security team isn’t convinced. They believe custom cryptography always hides a flaw.