$Beginner CTF Challenge_

Beginner · 30-45 min

Challenge Progress

Web Inspector

Basic Cryptography

Hidden Data

Code Analysis

Challenge 1/4

Web Inspector

Challenge 1: Digital Fingerprints

Every webpage leaves traces of information invisible to the casual visitor. Security analysts know that developers often leave comments, metadata, and other artifacts that can reveal crucial information about a system's vulnerabilities.

Operation Brief

This secure terminal appears to contain classified information, but it's not visible on the surface. Your mission is to uncover the hidden flag using standard web reconnaissance techniques.

CLASSIFIED TERMINAL

$ cat /etc/system.conf
# System Configuration File
# Last modified: 04-12-2023
#

$ ls -la /var/www/hidden/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 12 10:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 12 09:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Apr 12 10:24 .secret

TIP: Professional security analysts always examine page source code for clues.

Mission Objective:

Locate and extract the hidden flag. Format: flag{...}