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HackTheBox-Illumination
We are given an zip archive with the description
A Junior Developer just switched to a new source control platform. Can you find the secret token?
We can extract the archive through the password which is given to us hackthebox

Here we see two files and a folder

This looks like reading from config.json
and using the username and token from there


The token is removed from this file also the username looks like base64 encoded


Now whenever I come across a .git
folder I would look for the git commits made so there must be some changes made when someone made a commit , we can use git log
to list the commits

Here this is the first commit that the developer made , so let's try to see what file he pushed into the repo with that commit
git show 335d6cfe3cdc25b89cae81c50ffb957b86bf5a4a

This again looks like base64 encoded text that we can easily decode

And we'll get the flag.