Node

HTB Content Machines
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stack with the backup file ,it is an RSA kind of encryption ? I have tried a lot to decrypt it ,but always failed .
(not spoiling ,I’m asking to only check if I’m in the good road )
Thank you .

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thank I have figure out what is it

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could you give me a hint about the backup file

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fcra [TAB]
:wink:

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I have the contents of the backup file, but can’t seem to figure out how to take advantage of it. Any hints?

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analyze it

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I got a user, not the one I need for user.txt. Can’t find anything to lead to root or user that has the flag

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Any nudge going from mark to tom?

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Enumerate the processes on the system.

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Only see two processes as tom, without any way to get to them

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difficult to help without spoiling

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Understand, just can’t figure out what I’m missing, but don’t want it spoiled

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think of the structure of a server, and think of node

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hmm found an interesting folder running a process, but not sure how to use it

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So I can get the root.txt, but I can’t manage to get a root shell out of it. Any tiny little push on that?

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Been banging my head against this for a couple of days now. Got the initial foothold. Got access to another user (Got user.txt). Priv Esc has me stumped. Can someone confirm it has something to do with a certain file that takes a crazy string as one of its arguments?

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yep> @whipped said:

Been banging my head against this for a couple of days now. Got the initial foothold. Got access to another user (Got user.txt). Priv Esc has me stumped. Can someone confirm it has something to do with a certain file that takes a crazy string as one of its arguments?

yep, analyze it

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any suggestion in how to move from one use to another in this particular box? already got one but is not the one with user.txt.

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nevermind I think I found it around the tasks :slight_smile: