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# Finding the Hidden Flag
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This is a quick rundown of our school project where we hacked a website (in a controlled lab environment) to find a hidden flag.
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## What We Did
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- **Starting Point:**
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We began at the `.hidden` directory, which was kept out of search engines by the `robots.txt` file.
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- **How It Worked:**
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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.
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- **Speeding Things Up:**
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We used multi-threading so that multiple pages could be checked at once, which made the process much faster.
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## Takeaway
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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!
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