Emdee five for life [by L4mpje] — Walkthrough

Hackthebox: emdee five for life challenge is based on how fast a request can be send!

Emdee five for life [by L4mpje]

Here we have the hint 1.

Emdee five for life [by L4mpje]

And the hint 2 was there available in the webpage. Let’s look at the Instance in browser.

we are able to see there is string and we have to encrypt the string by using MD5 hash algorithm, and we have to submit/send the request.

First let’s try to encrypt the string by using Kali linux terminal.

let’s try to send/submit the encrypted value from the web.

Here we got a response “Too Slow!” with new string, and the second hind was we found in response “Too Slow!”. It means, that the request we sent it was slow.

Lets encrypt the new string and send the request from CURL.

But still our request slow!. let's write a simple code in Python and will give a try.

In the above script we have automated the some steps that has previously followed. let’s execute the script and check.

we the flag HTB{N1c3_ScrIpt1nG_B0i!}

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