April 8, 2026
Pentester Labs Recon 00 write up
Hello hackers, this is a write-up for the Recon series on Pentester Lab, Recon 00
Robert Nyinge
Author
The goal is to find the robots.txt The robots.txt file is used to tell the web spiders how to crawl a website. To avoid having confidential information indexed and searchable, webmasters use this file to tell spiders to avoid specific pages. This is done using the keyword disallow
Solution: Go to the said domain hackycorp.com/robots.txt, and the flag will be present