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🌐 Where Are the Robots

A detailed write-up of the Web challenge 'Where Are the Robots' from PicoCTF - 2019

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Challenge Presentation

📊 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:

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Site Presentation

As indicated by the site itself, the first thing I tried was to access the /robots.txt file:

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Robots.txt

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

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Manual Flag

🛠️ 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

Flag

picoCTF{ca1cu1at1ng_Mach1n3s_8028f}

Proof of Execution

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Automated Flag
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

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: *