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PicoCTF2018 – Web – Artisinal Handcrafted HTTP 3


PicoCTF2018 – Web – Artisinal Handcrafted HTTP 3

Objective:
We found a hidden flag server hiding behind a proxy, but the proxy has some... _interesting_ ideas of what qualifies someone to make HTTP requests.  Looks like you'll have to do this one by hand.  Try connecting via nc 2018shell.picoctf.com 18685, and use the proxy to send HTTP requests to `flag.local`.  We've also recovered a username and a password for you to use on the login page: `realbusinessuser`/`potoooooooo`.

Hint:
(1)    _Be the browser._  When you navigate to a page, how does your browser send HTTP requests?  How does this change when you submit a form?

Solution:

This is my first-time sending HTTP GET and POST manually, so I leaned pretty heavily on online resources

@pico-2018-shell:~$ nc 2018shell.picoctf.com 18685
Real Business Corp., Internal Proxy
Version 2.0.7
To proceed, please solve the following captcha:

 _____          __          
/ __  \        /  |   ______
`' / /' __  __ `| |  |______|
  / /   \ \/ /  | |   ______
./ /___  >  <  _| |_ |______|
\_____/ /_/\_\ \___/        
                            
                            


> 2
Validation succeeded.  Commence HTTP.

GET /
HOST: flag.local

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-powered-by: Express
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-length: 321
etag: W/"141-LuTf9ny9p1l454tuA3Un+gDFLWo"
date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:24:23 GMT
connection: close


                        <html>
                                                <head>
                                                                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />
                                                </head>
                                                <body>
                                                                <header>
                                                                                <h1>Real Business Internal Flag Server</h1>
                                                                                <a href="/login">Login</a>
                                                                </header>
                                                                <main>
                                                                                <p>You need to log in before you can see today's flag.</p>
                                                                </main>
                                                </body>
                                </html>


Okay from here we see there is a login page in the HTML /login let’s get /login and see what is shows


@pico-2018-shell:~$ nc 2018shell.picoctf.com 18685
Real Business Corp., Internal Proxy
Version 2.0.7
To proceed, please solve the following captcha:

 _____            ___         
|  ___|          /   |  ______
|___ \  __  __  / /| | |______|
    \ \ \ \/ / / /_| |  ______
/\__/ /  >  <  \___  | |______|
\____/  /_/\_\     |_/        
                              
                              


> 20
Validation succeeded.  Commence HTTP.

GET /Login HTTP/1.1
host: flag.local

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-powered-by: Express
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-length: 498
etag: W/"1f2-UE5AGAqbLVQn1qrfKFRIqanxl9I"
date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:24:49 GMT
connection: close


                        <html>
                                                <head>
                                                                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />
                                                </head>
                                                <body>
                                                                <header>
                                                                                <h1>Real Business Internal Flag Server</h1>
                                                                                <a href="/login">Login</a>
                                                                </header>
                                                                <main>
                                                                                <h2>Log In</h2>
                                                                               
                                                                                <form method="POST" action="login">
                                                                                                <input type="text" name="user" placeholder="Username" />
                                                                                                <input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Password" />
                                                                                                <input type="submit" />
                                                                                </form>
                                                                </main>
                                                </body>
                                </html>




It needs a username password luckily they gave this to us, let do a POST with and give the user/pass to the login page


@pico-2018-shell:~$ nc 2018shell.picoctf.com 18685
Real Business Corp., Internal Proxy
Version 2.0.7
To proceed, please solve the following captcha:

 _____             ____         
|____ |           / ___|  ______
    / /  ______  / /___  |______|
    \ \ |______| | ___ \  ______
.___/ /          | \_/ | |______|
\____/           \_____/        
                                
                                


> -3
Validation succeeded.  Commence HTTP.

POST /login HTTP/1.0
Host: flag.local
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 38

user=realbusinessuser&pass=potoooooooo
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
x-powered-by: Express
set-cookie: real_business_token=PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgid2F0Iik8L3NjcmlwdD4%3D; Path=/
location: /
vary: Accept
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-length: 23
date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:34:34 GMT
connection: close

OK so we get a cookie back from the login let’s pass the cookie to the login page and see what happens


@pico-2018-shell:~$ nc 2018shell.picoctf.com 18685
Real Business Corp., Internal Proxy
Version 2.0.7
To proceed, please solve the following captcha:

 ______           _____         
|___  /          |____ |  ______
   / /   ______      / / |______|
  / /   |______|     \ \  ______
./ /             .___/ / |______|
\_/              \____/         
                                
                                


> 4
Validation succeeded.  Commence HTTP.

GET /
host: flag.local
cookie: real_business_token=PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgid2F0Iik8L3NjcmlwdD4%3D

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-powered-by: Express
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-length: 438
etag: W/"1b6-bgxSS92CBVm1uJx+NK7DdppIBp8"
date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:40:06 GMT
connection: close


                                <html>
                                                <head>
                                                                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />
                                                </head>
                                                <body>
                                                                <header>
                                                                                <h1>Real Business Internal Flag Server</h1>
                                                                                <div class="user">Real Business Employee</div>
                                                                                <a href="/logout">Logout</a>
                                                                </header>
                                                                <main>
                                                                                <p>Hello <b>Real Business Employee</b>!  Today's flag is: <code>picoCTF{0nLY_Us3_n0N_GmO_xF3r_pR0tOcol5_5f5f}</code>.</p>
                                                                </main>
                                                </body>
                                </html>


Now we got the flag  picoCTF{0nLY_Us3_n0N_GmO_xF3r_pR0tOcol5_5f5f}

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