@rewks said:
I’ve tried four different ways of creating m** files, and they work on my local windows VM but apparently when r**** checks them they do nothing - yes I am doing something to them with the thing that can be found in the other folder/is referenced in his note.
The struggle is real. Would appreciate a hint.
I’m in the same boat. I think there is another piece missing to what needs to be done, but can’t quite get it yet.
I finally managed to crack it, what a ride. I certainly had to do a lot of research to root this machine. My experience can be summarised by “You think you know what you’re doing, but you don’t really. Go back to google.”
Greetings from the Jungle to All who dares to challenge Ethereal!
Is there anybody who have met “General Protection Fault” or “Page Fault” with p**x?
I’ve met. Any systems, any emulators, any version of additional library…
Have I to defeat it and run p**x to move further?
or debug it immediately (I can’t at the time)?
or leave it alone and look for other way?
@tabacci said:
Greetings from the Jungle to All who dares to challenge Ethereal!
Is there anybody who have met “General Protection Fault” or “Page Fault” with p**x?
I’ve met. Any systems, any emulators, any version of additional library…
Have I to defeat it and run p**x to move further?
or debug it immediately (I can’t at the time)?
or leave it alone and look for other way?
If the provided .*** isn’t playing nice, you could always look for an alternative for a more familiar environment.
If the provided .*** isn’t playing nice, you could always look for an alternative for a more familiar environment.
The spice is that even the best friend environment spits error and does not start .***
May be I have got broken p**x because some glitch in mounting disk image or something else here.
I did not notice complains for this error so thought that it is not common.
But now I see that it was not my environment problem, but the part of the quest.
Not sure if anybody can help me, but I’ve reached a stage with this box where I feel I’m really close to getting a foothold and just need a bit of a nudge!
I have gotten through to the stage where I can remotely execute very basic commands using the ping interface, but I am not really too sure which particular hole is the one containing no rabbits… Do I need to manipulate something that I know is likely to be clicked on…? Should I keep just trying to work out what I can directly run from there?
Any vague nudges would be appreciated, as this is driving me up the wall!
Is there a need for brute-force on any part of this challenge ? I struggle with a basic auth, got some passwords and user names from pxxx but cant use them here.
I’m quite stuck on RCE, only managed to get icmp packets, my solutions to get more are failing, anyone would care on a little hint via PM? I suspect what might be but don’t have a clue on how to check it.
@Skorn said:
I’m quite stuck on RCE, only managed to get icmp packets, my solutions to get more are failing, anyone would care on a little hint via PM? I suspect what might be but don’t have a clue on how to check it.
Started looking at this, hoping to get a toehold before it retires. I’m enjoying this one. It’s a trip down memory lane, for back when we would tie an onion to our belt.
I did a big facepalm when I realized there is no need to be all clever and deal with retro emulators for the p***.*** cracking step . Just look at what you’ve got and go get something that runs on kali. Now let’s see if I can use what I found… yep. Another small step.
This was the most difficult box i ve done on HTB tbh. I decided to write here after rooting that devil to mention two things that kept me looping around for a while. the first is… be sure to not mess with your “creations” (if you do then you must remove your “sign” and do it again), the second is that on the last step of this box you must be patient. the time to do the whole process is 5 mins not less than a minute like a step to take user. so if you do all the steps just relax sit down and wait. Great box overall really enjoyed the struggle!
Need help with RCE I am able to execute commands (like normally if you put your ip you will get 2 pings but I am able to do 4 more(widows default)), tried downloading nishang InvokePowershell but I am not getting reply back on my python server
Edit: got user a few hours before the box retires! This box is a b**** but it was totally worth doing even part of it. The hard work you have to put into this is mainly about researching and really understanding technologies. Also NOT OVERTHINKING THINGS… reuse and try the obvious… not doing these things sure wasted a few of my hours.
It also motivated me to learn a little more about my commonplace tools – like did you know that Firefox developer mode will save a request as a cUrl command? I’ve also finally started to use tmux to real advantage (thanks @ippsec ).
doing ethereal following 0xdf writeup. Stuck at the last step.
I thought there was a problem with the signature of my msi, but actually…
the file is not “consumed”
There should be a script (mentioned by 0xdf) at the end here:
that moves MSI files to a rupal directory before processing, every 5 minutes.
My msi stays under d:.… after 20 minutes and is not moved, so it’s not consumed.
How can that be possible? The msi should disappear from the d:.… folder and it doesn’t.
And I have already reset the machine and started from the beginning…