🌐 Where Are the Robots
A detailed write-up of the Web challenge 'Where Are the Robots' from PicoCTF - 2019
Contents
📊 Challenge Overview
Category Details Additional Info 🏆 Event PicoGym Event Link 🔰 Category Web 🌐 💎 Points Out of 500 total ⭐ Difficulty 🟢 Easy Personal Rating: 0/10 👤 Author zaratec/Danny Profile 🎮 Solves 90.820 solve rate 📅 Date 30-01-2025 PicoGym 🦾 Solved By mH4ck3r0n3 Team:
📝 Challenge Information
Can you find the robots? https://jupiter.challenges.picoctf.org/problem/60915/ (link) or http://jupiter.challenges.picoctf.org:60915
🎯 Challenge Files & Infrastructure
Provided Files
1
Files: None
🔍 Initial Analysis
First Steps
Initially, the website appears as follows:
As indicated by the site itself, the first thing I tried was to access the
/robots.txt
file:Here, the route
/8028f.html
was indicated, and by accessing it, I found the flag.
🎯 Solution Path
Exploitation Steps
Exploitation
The exploitation was simply to visit the
/8028f.html
page, where the flag was contained inside.
Flag capture
🛠️ Exploitation Process
Approach
The exploit makes a GET request to the page indicated in the
robots.txt
file and extracts the flag from the response using a regex.
🚩 Flag Capture
FlagpicoCTF{ca1cu1at1ng_Mach1n3s_8028f}
Proof of Execution
🔧 Tools Used
Tool Purpose Python Exploit
💡 Key Learnings
Skills Improved
- Binary Exploitation
- Reverse Engineering
- Web Exploitation
- Cryptography
- Forensics
- OSINT
- Miscellaneous
📊 Final Statistics
Metric | Value | Notes |
---|---|---|
Time to Solve | 00:00 | From start to flag |
Global Ranking | Challenge ranking | |
Points Earned | Team contribution |
Created: 30-01-2025 • Last Modified: 30-01-2025 *Author: mH4ck3r0n3 • Team: *