Natas 2

Overview

Field	Value
URL	`http://natas2.natas.labs.overthewire.org`
Username	`natas2`
Password	`TguMNxKo1DSa1tujBLuZJnDUlCcUAPlI`

The page says: "There is nothing on this page."

There are no HTML comments this time. But "nothing on this page" doesn't mean the server has nothing to offer — it means the visible content is empty. Start by examining what resources the page is actually loading.

Hints

Hint 1 — What does the source load?

View the page source. Even though the page appears blank, it still loads assets. Is anything referenced that lives in a subdirectory on the server?

Hint 2 — Directory listing

The source loads files/pixel.png. The /files/ directory exists on the server. Many web servers are configured to show a listing of all files in a directory when no index.html is present. Try navigating directly to /files/ — you might see more than just pixel.png.

Solution

Full walkthrough

Inspect the page source
View source. The page body contains:
```
<img src="files/pixel.png">
```
This reveals the existence of a /files/ directory.
Browse to the directory
Navigate to http://natas2.natas.labs.overthewire.org/files/.
Apache directory listing is enabled, showing two files:
- pixel.png — a 1×1 placeholder image
- users.txt — a credentials file

Read users.txt

Open users.txt:

# username:password
alice:BYNdCesZqW
bob:jw2ueICLvT
charlie:G5vCxkVV3m
natas3:3gqisGdR0pjm6tpkDKdIWO2hSvchLeYH
eve:zo4mJWyNj2
mallory:9urtcpzBmH

With curl

# Fetch the exposed credentials file directly
curl -s -u natas2:TguMNxKo1DSa1tujBLuZJnDUlCcUAPlI \
  http://natas2.natas.labs.overthewire.org/files/users.txt

Password

natas3: 3gqisGdR0pjm6tpkDKdIWO2hSvchLeYH