Thursday, August 6, 2026

HackSmarter Challenge Lab: Hunter (Easy)

  • https://www.hacksmarter.org/courses/19723a54-6e4b-410e-b9e3-371f702e0f5c 
  •  We'll do our normal things with VPN. 
    • For this lab we are presented with a challenge:
      • You need to identify which one is a valid username for the web application. 
      • We are provided a list of possible names.  
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  • There's a sign in page as well as a Forgot password page. 
    • We don't get any discernible data when we try to log in or reset the password 
  •  We use Caido's automate feature on the Forgot Password page
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    • Here we see that the user Joey's round trip request took 1055ms , way over the ~300ms for the rest of the users. 
    • We're in, that's the challenge.  
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HackSmarter Challenge Lab: Free Access - Polution (Easy)

https://www.hacksmarter.org/courses/1de73367-b278-41ba-a63c-83c2d510621c We'll do our normal VPN thing.  Our challenge is:  The credenti...