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"Apia": Needle in a Haystack

Scenario: "Apia": Needle in a Haystack

Level: Easy

Type: Do

Tags: pro   bash  

Access: Paid

Description: In a directory /home/admin/data, there are multiple files, all of them with same content. One of these files has been modified, a word was added. You need to identify which word it is and put it in the solution file (both newline terminated or not are accepted).

Root (sudo) Access: False

Test: md5sum /home/admin/solution should return 55aba155290288b58e9b778c8f616560 or 2eeefea9fc4b16ea624bed5c67a49d80

Check My Solution: The "Check My Solution" button runs the script /home/admin/agent/check.sh, which you can

Time to Solve: 20 minutes.

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Updated: 2026-03-06 05:04 UTC – 94935d8