Curling

google magic bytes byte

@Blkph0x said:
google magic bytes byte

I personally find it more useful to google interesting substrings of files that I’m looking at.

Root shell acquired. But using a very very messy and intrusive way that probably broke some stuff along the way.

Would like to discuss root shell methods with those who completed the box, pm if interested.

Can give hints too, but explain what you have tried so far and where you are or you will be ignored.

Hello,
I’m actually stuck at the pa******_ba**** file and I found that it has something to do with bz*** but I’m not sure what to do with that.
Could somebody give me a hint towards the right direction please? That would me much appreciated.

when you guys create an uploader on the home page you kinda are spoiling the machine for others, there are other ways, way more elegant and less noisy

Ive accessed s*****.txt and used 2 c tools on it , but nothing

@Florent said:
Hello,
I’m actually stuck at the pa******_ba**** file and I found that it has something to do with bz*** but I’m not sure what to do with that.
Could somebody give me a hint towards the right direction please? That would me much appreciated.

What you need is in the forum posts. Take a step back before you can move forward.

Hi guys I got the user flag I can give you hint about user but I am stuck on the root flag I know I should edit something in a*****-a***** and use c*** but I can’t go any further. Thanks.

edit: nvm got it

Currently stuck on the root part. Need a hint for the two files.

Edit: Got the root hash, but do not know how people invoked it. Have a clue but would like to ask someone who already rooted the box. Someone who is willing to explain it to me PM me please :slight_smile:

Does it really have anything to do with cewl tool?

Done. Anyone able to send me a DM, I have a couple question around method etc and would be good if someone can shed some light for me. Cheers

Got it!

hello everybody… I’v been able to find the user and the password… I logged in as super admin… what’s next? I tried to upload a php to get a reverse shell via an uploader that some one put there but no luck. I don’t even know how to put an uploader by my self. > @natanrigailo said:

when you guys create an uploader on the home page you kinda are spoiling the machine for others, there are other ways, way more elegant and less noisy …
Can you give me a nudge about this method?
Thank you

Hello guys,

I must be really stupid, i found the s*****.**t but i’m unable to login with common username such as admin, administrator, superuser, even Floris lol can you guys help me ?

thx

I can’t, for the life of me figure out what’s going on in the a****-****a folder. I’ve tried messing around with both files, but no dice. Can someone PM me the teensiest hint possible?

EDIT: rooted, how silly of me. Any pointers on popping a root shell?

Can some one help me with pa******_ba**** file I know it is bz*** I used xxd -r to convert to original bz*** but unable to decompress it as it’s show corrupted

Pls PM me any help will be appreciated

@ronak360 said:
Can some one help me with pa******_ba**** file I know it is bz*** I used xxd -r to convert to original bz*** but unable to decompress it as it’s show corrupted

Pls PM me any help will be appreciated

use the file program

@ronak360 said:
Can some one help me with pa******_ba**** file I know it is bz*** I used xxd -r to convert to original bz*** but unable to decompress it as it’s show corrupted

Pls PM me any help will be appreciated

same here…

got root thanks for comments! :wink:

My thoughts on Curling. Some people said this was too easy while others said it was hard. My thoughts are there are a few things in the beginning that make this machine super frustrating but overall this wasn’t a difficult box.

Foothold
Yes its what you think it is. “May the source be with you”
After you find the thing that data is in the BASEment, floor 64 (this was the most frustrating part for me because this wasn’t indicated anywhere)
Read ALL the blog articles
login and understand where you are. Some googling should point you in the right direction for a shell.

User
This one was fun. I hope this isn’t a spoiler but this article helped me a lot (google bandit-level-12)

Root
Once on the box look around. You don’t need to look real far to see whats going on. cat everything and once you see whats happening you should know what to do.

PM me if stuck