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19 July 2020

Mr Rami

by INXS_JOY

“People who get violent get that way because they can’t communicate.”

http://chall.csivit.com:30231

Solution

It’s like an instinct, whenever I see a challenge title related to Mr.Robot series, I check the /robots.txt page. xD

Generally robots. txt file is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl.

So on visiting the /robots.txt, http://chall.csivit.com:30231/robots.txt we see a path which is disallowed to the web robots.

# Hey there, you're not a robot, yet I see you sniffing through this file.
# SEO you later!
# Now get off my lawn.

Disallow: /fade/to/black

We append this disallowed path /fade/to/black to the challenge url, http://chall.csivit.com:30231/fade/to/black and we get the flag.

Flag

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tags: Web