No Intro, let’s get right into it.
You can try it out yourself at https://shabakchallenge.com/
When you enter the site, you are prompted with some weird video, and this image:
Immediately, you can see a zeppelin full of LED lights, which alludes to the Led Zeppelin band, and the ‘Floyd’ text written in Pink which alludes to Pink Floyd. Also behind every band, there is a timestamp that looks like a timestamp in a video.
Looking at the ‘stairway to heaven’ at the top of the picture, we searched for the Stairway to Heaven official video, which is the part where Led Zeppelin sings “Piper’s calling you to join him” (5:15 is exactly the word ‘join’)
Then we saw the ‘viva la vida’ sign in the street, which is a song by Coldplay (see the ice cube down below?). In the ‘Viva La Vida’ song coldplays sings ‘shield’.
Knowing that Shabak is the ‘Unseen Shield’ that was enough for us to know the URL we would need for the next challenge.
We guessed it would be something like ‘jointheunseenshield.com’ and we were right!
