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I started my journey as a “Security Engineer” 3 years back. Here I am writing some of my experience of my journey…

When I started working, I was eager to know this domain as I felt this domain pretty interesting. At the early stages, I visualized myself as some kind of cop or cool investigator(so dumb it was) and as I moved forward these feelings broke down and actual struggle started.

I started learning CTFs. One day I bumped into “HackerOne CTFs” and started exploring. I am going to share my first CTF challenge that I solved: Level 0.

Level 0: get started

I saw the title “A little something to get you started” and jumped onto it.

You can only see a page that says “Welcome to level 0. Enjoy your stay.” nothing else.

So, First things first, I checked the page source if anything is disclosed there or any hint of the flag but I found this

I can see “background.png” but can’t see any image on the landing page of Level 0 but couldn’t think that this can be helpful. Skipped this and moved forward, tried some tools to find one hint. No hint at all.

Then checked hints that are given by HackerOne. They said in 3rd hint “page looks really plain” ohhhhhhhhhh! I was foolish to not check what image is that. I checked “background.png” using the URL and found my first ever flag.

Happinesssss! (newbie happiness of course)

Just an experience as a noob. May this will help someone who is new to security testing.

All The Best! Keep Trying!