📊 Challenge Overview

Category	Details	Additional Info
🏆 Event	PicoGym	Event Link
🔰 Category	Web	🌐
💎 Points		Out of 500 total
⭐ Difficulty	🟢 Easy	Personal Rating: 0/10
👤 Author	Jeffery John	Profile
🎮 Solves	40.820	solve rate
📅 Date	28-01-2025	PicoGym
🦾 Solved By	mH4ck3r0n3	Team:

📝 Challenge Information

I don’t like scrolling down to read the code of my website, so I’ve squished it. As a bonus, my pages load faster! Additional details will be available after launching your challenge instance.

🎯 Challenge Files & Infrastructure

Provided Files

1	Files: None

🔍 Initial Analysis

First Steps

Initially, the website appears as follows:

The website itself hinted that once the page was viewed, I would also obtain the flag, so I immediately thought of inspecting the page source.

🎯 Solution Path

Exploitation Steps

Exploitation

It was enough to inspect the page source and enable word wrap, or use CTRL+F to search the page for picoCTF{.

Flag capture

🛠️ Exploitation Process

Approach

The exploit makes a GET request to the page and extracts the flag using a regex.

•  Exploit

🚩 Flag Capture

Flag

Proof of Execution

Screenshot of successful exploitation

🔧 Tools Used

Tool	Purpose
Python	Exploit

💡 Key Learnings

Skills Improved

• Binary Exploitation
• Reverse Engineering
• Web Exploitation
• Cryptography
• Forensics
• OSINT
• Miscellaneous

📊 Final Statistics

Created: 28-01-2025 • Last Modified: 28-01-2025 *Author: mH4ck3r0n3 • Team: *