recon_01 (404 pages)

View the exercise here: PentesterLab: Recon 01

OBJECTIVE

For this challenge, your goal is to generate a 404/"Not Found" error on the main website for hackycorp.com.

THE 404 PAGES

Not Found/404 pages can leak information about the web stack used by a company or application. It also allows you to detect files that exist when you start brute-forcing the directory. This is why it is important to check what the 404 page looks like.

SOLUTION

To get a 404 Error Page, append any random string after hackycorp.com

In this screenshot, we entered hackycorp.com/random to get the key to this challenge, but you can also input any gibberish string to achieve this.