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Money Flowz

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Money Flowz

Platform: HackTheBox | Category: OSINT | Difficulty: N/A | Author: D3v0o0Nu11 | Date: 2026-02-10

Description

Frank Vitalik is a hustler, can you figure out where the money flows?

Solution Approach

Core idea: Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.

Steps

  1. Let us googled name Frank Vitalik on the internet.

  2. Got a promising result.

  3. Open the link.

  4. Looks like there's 2 links given.

  5. Let us check the bottom one.

  6. From here we got clue.

  7. The ropsten should be refer to -> ropsten.etherscan.io

  8. Now paste the address we got on the website.

  9. Let us check the outgoing transcation.

  10. Check the first one.

  11. Convert the input data to UTF-8.

  12. Got the flag!

Flag

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Lessons Learned

  1. Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first.
  2. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.
  3. Reuse the same pattern in future engagements.