What a stretch with all those resets
Other than that, really liked that box. Thank you @Xh4H for the nice box. Really loved it for being straight forward to solve.
Guys, i’m stuck on the root privileges escalation. I looked at what is going on on the system and I’ve found that there is a special directory with some files with good permissions. Any hint?
Root was a pretty elegant play. It took me a minute to understand what to do with it, but it is an AWESOME technique. Just because someone owns something doesn’t mean they own the intellectual property to it.
Can someone please PM me and give me a tip on root? I can see the u****-mo**.d and permissions are user r*** group s******n, but I’m really not sure how to escalate. Tried to modify some files but can’t trigger them. Monitored the output for pspy but wasn’t helping all that much. I can see a couple of cp commands running every 30 seconds but not sure how that’s useful.
edit: Rooted. Too many people messing around on this thing. My best advice is to wait a while for traffic to slow down on this box, give it a couple weeks maybe…
If not, don’t make the same mistake I did. If you know what you’re doing is correct, keep trying and you may get different results ( Einstein’s exact definition of insanity ). PM for help.
Finally rooted! Fun box for nubs and learned a thing or two. I will say there has been a lot of resetting of the box unnecessarily. I reset it once myself but only because someone overwrote the needed binary with their reverse shell (LOL). Other than that the box was pretty stable.
Initial: Don’t reset the box over and over when you cant figure it out, start paying attention to hints given in front of you, then go from there. Basic OSINT is your friend.
User: Learned a little about a new language, make sure to, once again, read whats in front of you to get user.
Root: I overthought this one way too much. My suggestion is to make sure you understand basic operations in the Linux OS. Then it will click (at least it did for me).