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CTF Tactics

Challenge {name}

{url}

{description}

Backend

  • Server: {server, version}
  • Language: {language, version}

Site map

  • {url} ({methods, directory listing?})
  • ...

Interesting Headers

  • {name}: {value}
  • ...

CTF Tactics checklist

From https://github.com/Corb3nik/Web-Exploitation-Workflow

Recon

  • server/language/backend?
    • test extensions (php, html, cgi, etc.)
    • test page not found
    • check HTTP request headers
  • Understand how the application works
  • Testing for common files/folders
    • /.htaccess (Apache server dir-level config)
    • /robots.txt
    • /.git/HEAD (Git repository)
    • /.svn/ (Subversion repository)
    • /.hg/ (Mercurial repository)
    • /admin
    • /login
    • ...
  • Checking source files
    • HTML
    • JS
    • CSS
  • Checking requests headers
  • Directory listing
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