HackTheBox - Illumination

CHALLENGE DESCRIPTION

A Junior Developer just switched to a new source control platform. Can you find the secret token?

First, I’ve downloaded challenge attached file, first thing I look into is .git folder:

I’ve guessed it maybe related to Github problem, when developers’re careless in managing project Immediately, I use ‘git log’ to check edit history

With my experience, I’ve checked the oldest commit because it’s unedited by using ‘git show commit’. Navigating to the end, we’ll see the token encoded by base64:

Decode it and we get the flag!

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