Rooted. For some reason, I did not notice the first step for foothold for quite an embarrassing amount of time. Sometimes it helps to go very slow at the start of your investigation and examine everything carefully. It’s so dead obvious, you cannot miss it… I guess I was expecting something to be found at a later step. It really is easier than anything I have seen before on here so I guess I didn’t expect it to be there. A good lesson in being thorough I guess.
The rest of the box flowed fairly quickly and did not require any brute force or scanning. Everything can be done with off the shelf tools and this box really did feel easy for once. Nice box to get me back in the mode after a couple month break, I enjoyed it!