Mirai - Almost there

HTB Content Machines
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Wondering if anyone can help me with the final portion of this. I have everything, I found what I need to find. But the file size is 0… am I looking in the right place?

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read it

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Hard to say much at this step without spoiling, but if it’s 0 that doesn’t sound right :stuck_out_tongue:

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@peek said:
read it

That is the goal lol. But if it is 0 bytes. How can I read it?

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Noticed that too…but people are owning it somehow so something is there

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@Tarrell13 said:
Noticed that too…but people are owning it somehow so something is there

Yeah I just wanted to ensure this wasn’t a bug

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@day1player said:

@Tarrell13 said:
Noticed that too…but people are owning it somehow so something is there

Yeah I just wanted to ensure this wasn’t a bug

I really do wonder if it could be. Maybe some people can see it but some can’t. Not too sure though. I just tried everything and nothing seems to change the size lol. I even tried pasting the ■■■■ Md5sum of the file thinking that was it.

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@Tarrell13 said:
I really do wonder if it could be. Maybe some people c…

I’ll PM you if I figure it out

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Ok just to close this thread out this is not a bug… just remember everything on linux is a file

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I was struggling at this exact point yesterday. It’s a little out of the box thinking, but if you think about it logically you’ll get it. The last message you found is a clue if you spend some time to think about the process of what he did to the file :slight_smile:

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Hey, thanks andrewh! Your hint regarding “what could have been done to the file” totally helped me get it. I was all over the place (never attempted something like this before) so I needed some guidance to force my thought in the right direction, haha. That was fun; I learned a lot in the process.

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Haha you’re welcome, I was going off down all sorts of forensic investigation CSI attempts :slight_smile: but then I got a similar hint. Awesome work mate well done for getting there in the end.

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Wow that took a long time and honestly I’m not exactly sure why that worked haha. Can anyone PM me and explain what the output means line by line?

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what you mean with “little out of the box thinking”? :frowning: i continue to not understand…