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HTB Illumination Challenge

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By Calico 1 min read

Introduction

Reminiscent is one of the forensics challenges of Hack the box. HTB gave the following introduction

A Junior Developer just switched to a new source control platform. Can you find the secret token?

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Version control

When downloading the zip we could see that there was a .git folder. one of the previous commits will probably contain the key we are looking for. list all the commits by running git log.

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git log

Git log

The first commit looks the most interesting. Open the commit with the following command

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git show 335d6cfe3cdc25b89cae81c50ffb957b86bf5a4a

When scrolling through it at the end we could see the following code snippet containing the token in base64

Token found

Then i decoded the string using base64

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echo SFRCe3YzcnNpMG5fYzBudHIwbF9hbV9JX3JpZ2h0P30= | base64 -d

Giving us the following flag

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HTB{v3rsi0n_c0ntr0l_am_I_right?}
HTB, challenge
Forensics Version_control
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