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This machine is an excellent bridge between "Easy" and "Medium" difficulty. It teaches that trusted tools (like PDF converters) can become vulnerabilities if they accept untrusted input. It reinforces the importance of sanitizing URL inputs and restricting the protocols ( http/https only) that a backend server is allowed to request.

"url": "https://example.com"

[Attacker Node] ---> (Submits Malicious URL) ---> [PDFy Web Server] ---> (Fetches Page via wkhtmltopdf) ---> [Attacker's Exploitation Server (302 Redirect)] ---> [Internal System Files (file:///)] pdfy htb writeup upd

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tool is known to be vulnerable to SSRF if it renders user-controlled HTML or follows redirects to local files [1, 26]. : Read the /etc/passwd file to find the flag [13, 14]. The Technique : Since direct file paths (like file:///etc/passwd ) may be blocked by a basic filter, you can use a PHP redirect script hosted on your own server (or a service like ) [1, 11]. redirect.php "url": "https://example

: Because PDF generators often execute underlying system commands to create the PDF, injecting command characters like backticks ( ) or piping ( |`) can lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) .