information

https://play.picoctf.org/practice/challenge/186?page=1

• nothing seems sussy in the actual picture

• use [[exiftool]] to see meta data of image

• in the license section,

...
XMP Toolkit : Image::ExifTool 10.80
License     : cGljb0NURnt0aGVfbTN0YWRhdGFfMXNfbW9kaWZpZWR9
Rights      : PicoCTF
...

• License looks sus since it should usually indicate owner

• turns out it's encoded in [[base64]], decoding it with [[CyberChef]] we get the flag