During the C-Days18 conference André (@0xACB) and Zé (@JLLiS) CTF junkies teased me to participate in H1CTF18. At first, I wasn't entirely convinced since it had already been running for a few days. Nevertheless, I decided to have a crack at it.
The web challenge starts with a simple visit to an endpoint on http://159.203.178.9/ that is running a webpage with the following title "Notes RPC Capture The Flag" and in the body " ...somewhere on this server, a service can be found that allows a user to securely stores notes. In one of the notes, a flag is hidden."
Without a shadow of a doubt; I must find a way to interact with that note service.
As always recon is the first thing to do. I started with the browser. After opening the page, I turned to the network tab on the Developer Tools and went through to the response headers, where I got "Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)".
My first attempt was looking for "/server-status/" since the ([status