Index Of Challenge 2 Review

Alex Mercenary | Category: Cybersecurity / CTF Walkthrough If you’ve been following along with our Capture The Flag (CTF) series, you know that Challenge 1 was a gentle handshake. Challenge 2 , however, is where the gloves come off.

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Check the readme.txt :

rm .git/index git reset HEAD . Suddenly, files that were "deleted" or hidden reappear. You’ll see a file named backup_ flag.txt (without the space) or user_flag.enc . After restoring the Git index, run ls -la . You’ll find a symlink or a hidden file like .secret/creds . Alex Mercenary | Category: Cybersecurity / CTF Walkthrough

openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in user_flag.enc -out flag.txt -pass pass:CTFgit_is_not_backup And there it is: Have a different approach to "index of challenge 2"

Index of /challenge2 [PARENTDIR] Parent Directory [DIR] assets/ [TXT] readme.txt [?] flag.txt

At first, you click flag.txt excitedly. But you’re met with a 403 Forbidden or a decoy message: "Not this time, hacker."