Level 8

Using the credentials obtained in the previous writeup, we can log in to Level 8, in which we are presented with the following screen:


It appears as though we must find another secret to obtain the password for natas9. Let's view the source code:

 <html>  
 <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/natas/level.css"></head>  
 <body>  
 <h1>natas8</h1>  
 <div id="content">  
 <?  
 $encodedSecret = "3d3d516343746d4d6d6c315669563362";  
 function encodeSecret($secret) {  
   return bin2hex(strrev(base64_encode($secret)));  
 }  
 if(array_key_exists("submit", $_POST)) {  
   if(encodeSecret($_POST['secret']) == $encodedSecret) {  
   print "Access granted. The password for natas9 is <censored>";  
   } else {  
   print "Wrong secret";  
   }  
 }  
 ?>  
 <form method=post>  
 Input secret: <input name=secret><br>  
 <input type=submit name=submit>  
 </form>  
 <div id="viewsource"><a href="index-source.html">View sourcecode</a></div>  
 </div>  
 </body>  
 </html>  

We see that this code performs the "encodeSecret" function on our input, and compares it with the already encoded $encodedSecret variable. Therefore, we can perform the inverse of the encodeSecret function on our already encoded secret value to obtain the original value.

There are a couple of things to note:

  • We must do the operations in reverse order since this is the inverse function.
  • The hex2bin function is only available in PHP >= 5.4.0. Since I had a Backtrack R3 instance available that had PHP 5.3.2, I had to resort to the documentation to find the alternative: pack ("H*", $str)

I obtained the original secret using the following:

 root@bt:~# php5  
 <?  
 echo base64_decode(strrev(pack("H*" , "3d3d516343746d4d6d6c315669563362")))  
 ?>  
 oubWYf2kBq  

We can then put use this secret to (hopefully) obtain the password for natas9:

Just as we hoped, we are presented with the password which we can use to log in to the next level. More writeups to come.
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