+ | Flag and decode

flags/hidden_robot/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Finding the Hidden Flag
+
+This is a quick rundown of our school project where we hacked a website (in a controlled lab environment) to find a hidden flag.
+
+## What We Did
+
+- **Starting Point:**  
+  We began at the `.hidden` directory, which was kept out of search engines by the `robots.txt` file.
+
+- **How It Worked:**  
+  We built a script that went through each subdirectory looking for a README file. It checked the last byte of the file to spot any unusual values. If the byte didn't match the normal pattern, we knew we had found the flag.
+
+- **Speeding Things Up:**  
+  We used multi-threading so that multiple pages could be checked at once, which made the process much faster.
+
+## Takeaway
+
+This project taught us how to combine directory traversal with threading and basic HTML parsing to uncover hidden information. Check out the repo for the full code!

flags/hidden_robot/flag

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+d5eec3ec36cf80dce44a896f961c1831a05526ec215693c8f2c39543497d4466

flags/hidden_robot/main.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class Request(threading.Thread):
 			print("\n\nFound the flag on: ", IP + BASE_URL + self.url)
 
 			flag = requests.get(IP + BASE_URL + self.url + "README")
-			print(flag.content, "\n")
+			print(flag.content.decode(), "\n")
 			
 			exit(0)