Need hint(s) for Mirai

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I already know that what Mirari is and how it hacked into systems and tried using some of the passwords but nothing worked

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@Agent22 said:

@D4n1aLLL said:
I already know that used default/generic usernames and passwords and i tried bruteforcing with 500-worst-passwords and tried guessing some of the default linux passwords on both pi-hole and ssh but i am stuck

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Edited. Can you help now?

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enumerate target OS, system and try some basic thing … Pi-Hole gives u bigger hint …

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@Agent22 said:
enumerate target OS, system and try some basic thing … Pi-Hole gives u bigger hint …

Already tried that stuff :confused:

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As someone else said before, think about how MIRAI spreads itself. And then, think about what sort of system you are trying to p0wn. Don’t overthink, so far it’s the easiest one of the machines I’ve dealt with (as of now, 3 :-P).

Occam’s razor.

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@socialkas said:
As someone else said before, think about how MIRAI spreads itself. And then, think about what sort of system you are trying to p0wn. Don’t overthink, so far it’s the easiest one of the machines I’ve dealt with (as of now, 3 :-P).

Occam’s razor.

Social i got access to ssh thanks to Agent22 and got the user still need to find a way to get root and in meantime i was able to hack into blocky and upload a web shell on wordpress

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Well done, why stick to just one machine when you can hack others at the same time? Cool. Happy hacking with Blocky; as for getting root on Mirai, as someone else already said, think about this: on Linux, everything is a file. What would you normally do to find something interesting within a file when it comes to Linux? Cheers,

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@socialkas said:
Well done, why stick to just one machine when you can hack others at the same time? Cool. Happy hacking with Blocky; as for getting root on Mirai, as someone else already said, think about this: on Linux, everything is a file. What would you normally do to find something interesting within a file when it comes to Linux? Cheers,

I dont know :smiley: i dont have any good idea about linux i am kinda new to it. I completed blocky tho :stuck_out_tongue: