Hack This Site Basic 11

Sam decided to make a music site. Unfortunately he does not understand Apache. This mission is a bit harder than the other basics.

As you may have noticed! when we visit this level all we are given with is some line about song.This line changes on each refresh.From this we assume that this is not the real page we need to visit.But how we find our requirement? There is a tool in Kali Linux called 'Dirb'. But for now Iam using an online service for this
>>URL FUZZER<< . First we give the url and search for files with .php extension.

select start scan.Wait for scan to finish.

So,we have found a file.Now visit it as:

https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/index.php

There is our login page.still we are stuck!we don't have the password or any hint in the source code of this page. Lets run another scan on the URL Fuzzer ,this time for directories

Same way start scan and wait for it to finish.

There are two possible directories. first we try /index/ ..but it seems no change it shows a new line .

Now, try /e/

Found a new directory in it.

/l/ ,and there are more directories /t/,/o/,/n/

in the end we are on a blank page,with just link to parent directory.

We know Sam uses Apache in this website so he must have used .htaccess file

so i tried to check if .htaccess exist in this directory.Yes it is!

https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/e/l/t/o/n/.htaccess

HTACCESS FILE CONTAIN:

IndexIgnore DaAnswer.* .htaccess
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files

Here DaAnswer seems suspicious! so lets try it ! add DaAnswer after e/l/t/o/n/

when added DaAnswer,it automatically turned to .txt

https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/e/l/t/o/n/DaAnswer.txt

Inside that this line was found:

The answer is around! Just look a little harder.

Next,we have to deduce the answer iam going to try password as "around"

Yes it is! we have completed the level!

You may have got different password as password chnages

I also got in some tries:

The answer is somewhere close! Just look a little harder.

The answer is not what you think! Just look a little harder.

The answer is short! Just look a little harder.

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