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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!