James Cao
UMass CTF 2026 Web Writeups

UMass CTF 2026 Writeups

Brick by Brick Goal Find the hidden admin dashboard to get the flag. My Solution The home page doesn’t have any links, or any hints: Therefore I did some basic emuneration and found a existed robots.txt file with this content: User-agent: * Disallow: /internal-docs/assembly-guide.txt Disallow: /internal-docs/it-onboarding.txt Disallow: /internal-docs/q3-report.txt # NOTE: Maintenance in progress. # Unauthorized crawling of /internal-docs/ is prohibited. Seems like the maintenance source code is hosted public, taking a look at three internal docs files. I found a breakthrough solution for the flag. ...

April 16, 2026 · 15 min