01 — Recon
easySome things only show up to people who look at what's underneath. View source on the homepage.
Five flags are hidden around this site — some in the obvious places, some not. No writeups, no hints beyond what's below. Find one, drop it in, watch the counter move.
0 / 5 flags captured
Some things only show up to people who look at what's underneath. View source on the homepage.
Every good analyst checks the logs first. Open your browser's console on the homepage.
No hunting needed for this one — just cryptanalysis. The string below is XOR'd against a repeating key: the name of the lab listed under “Current Role" on the homepage.
35090226322b55111e78203a0d713d0c560d223b2a151770793d18
Not everything that loads is linked in the page. Watch the network tab while the homepage loads — one small file isn't referenced anywhere you can click, only in what it fetches.
Search engine crawlers get handed a map of where not to go. That's usually the most interesting place on the map.
Not many people make it this far — recon, console digging, traffic sniffing, and a bit of cryptanalysis. Nicely done.