Ethereal

Who has/had an issue with changing user and payload blabla.l** ?

ok got user

What makes this box so hard? Is it obscure technology, or you need obscure pentesting tools, or the maker hid things in weird places? I like a tough challenge but I’m trying to decide if this box is worth doing. I’m seeing a lot of thumbs down on it.

any initial foothold?

Lots of interesting stuff on initial recon. I downloaded everything I could find from the box but not sure how to use it yet (or whether it will be useful even). No obvious initial footholds yet.

edit: this box is so slow, even in VIP, and nothing is rendering consistently, so I’m going to skip it.

Anyone have any issues getting the payload .l* to do anything?

I seem to be having some really inconsistent results, I had my .l* working fine, but now (using the same commands) it seems to hang as if j**** isn’t doing anything with it? I had success changing to a different VIP world for a bit, but pretty consistently doesn’t seem to be working now. The .l* is definitely in the right spot, doesn’t seem like it’s reverting either. If anyone has a clue with this one, would be appreciated :slight_smile:

Same issue with me then. Talked to a couple of people who got system and it sounds like my .l* is correct and in the right place but nothing happens… Tried with the simplest possible payload. Run it myself, works. Wait for j****… no response…

It finally works. I have changed NOTHING for the last 20 attempts… I’ve been swapping between VPN connections, and now it works… curious

Something to mention, the default HTB openVPN connection runs over UDP, meaning there is no actual session management for your overall connection to the labs (so TCP session management within the lab is then meaningless essentially).

I found I had much greater reliability when using the TCP openVPN rather than the default :slight_smile:

After resetting the box, the actions of the box still appear as if an event which should be occurring isn’t…

Reverse shell seems to hang as well… been carrying on without but was getting messy, decided to dig a little deeper. Not sure why but the commands aren’t getting a response back… Works fine between two vms.

Yeah thats what I found, I woudl overwrite the .lnk and i could keep typing it and it just woyudlnt over write. I’ve sent the creator a message to see if its intended to start doing that once the box restarts as it may be a bug. I just switched labs until i found one that worked.

Finally rooted. Im glad this is out of my life! Great box, definitely pushed me to my limits and learnt a whole bunch :slight_smile:

Somebody needs to have a word with j****…not impressed with his work ethic…

“Abandon all hope ye who enter here”…

Despite j****'s best efforts, finally got root. Well worth the struggle, lots to learn.

I am not having success with the .l*, either my payload is off or I’m just not receiving the responses like everyone else. Anyone kind enough to confirm if my payload is jacked up??

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Anyone could PM me a hint? I’m out of ideas.
I’m able to execute a limited set of commands and to read a part of the output over another „channel“. I’m not able to write something or to use one of the techniques to transfer files to the machine.