🌐 A Little Something to Get You Started
A detailed write-up of the Web challenge 'A Little Something to Get You Started' from Hacker101 CTF
Contents
📊 Challenge Overview
Category Details Additional Info 🏆 Event Hacker101 CTF Event Link 🔰 Category Web 🌐 💎 Points 1 Out of 1 total ⭐ Difficulty 🟢 Easy Personal Rating: 0/10 👤 Author Unknown Profile 🎮 Solves (At the time of flag submission) Unknown solve rate 📅 Date 24-02-2025 Hacker101 CTF 🦾 Solved By mH4ck3r0n3 Team:
🎯 Challenge Files & Infrastructure
Provided Files
1
Files: None
🔍 Initial Analysis
First Steps
Initially, the website appears as follows:
Here, as we can see, there is nothing interesting, so I decided to inspect the page source.
Here, I only found a background image in the
css
, which apparently isn’t displayed. Let’s move on to the exploitation.
🎯 Solution Path
Exploitation Steps
Exploitation
Since the image wasn’t displayed as a
background
, I visited the/background.png
route to see what the image was, and that’s how I found the flag.
Flag capture
🛠️ Exploitation Process
Approach
The automatic exploit makes a GET request to
/background.png
and extracts the flag using a regex from the response.
🚩 Flag Capture
Flag
Proof of Execution
🔧 Tools Used
Tool Purpose Python Exploit ChromeDevTools Web Testing
💡 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 (At the time of flag submission) | Challenge ranking | |
Points Earned | 1 | Team contribution |
Created: 24-02-2025 • Last Modified: 24-02-2025 *Author: mH4ck3r0n3 • Team: *