# Flag in the Flame

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1767897523346/ae84ff70-f57d-49e1-8a59-6ea6b498253d.png align="center")

first I tried it to open in default text editor, it took long,

then I tried opening it in VSCode then searched for picoCTF nothing appeared also tried running grep nothing found,

then checked for `base64 decoding` got a PNG header after decoding so searched for some tools which will decode the base64 to PNG after that I found

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1767897783692/9932d67f-0e31-4a3e-8bcd-a8e7a36ea2e5.png align="center")

saw a HEX string and after decoding this I got the flag