After running the program, it looks like the challenge is composed of several part, and we have to guess the flag through reversing the program. Let's open the program with radare2.
The main function is easy to understand, it ask the user for the flag, wait for the user input, and then call the validate() function. The program is composed of several parts, we have to understand each part to retrieve the flag.
After entering in the function validate(), there are many conditional jumps that are performed. It is quite simple to understand here, we just have to convert those hexadecimal numbers in ASCII character.
This part is also the same, we just need to convert those hexadecimal into ASCII characters.
On this one, we have an instruction add eax, eax that tell you that eax is getting multiplied by 2 before the conditional jump. So I suppose we just need to divide the comparason by 2.
The instruction "shl" will proceed to shift the some bits to the left.
This part is a little bit tricky, each time before the conditional jump, it takes two values.
To pass this step, the correct input was : 167a02cf.
Looks like we only have one conditional jump in the program.