That concludes the write‑up for the challenge on Hdhub4u. Happy hacking!
$ pdfinfo 18pages.pdf Title: 18 Pages Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.21 CreationDate: D:20260312123456-04'00' ModDate: D:20260312123500-04'00' Tagged: no Pages: 18 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) The file looks like an ordinary PDF with (as the title hints). 18 Pages Hdhub4u
Category: Steganography / Forensics – PDF 1. Overview The challenge consists of a single file named 18pages.pdf (≈ 1 MB). The description on the challenge page simply says “18 Pages – Hdhub4u” and a point value of 300. That concludes the write‑up for the challenge on Hdhub4u
Thus the final flag for the challenge is: 18 Pages Hdhub4u