Responder failing at task 12

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Hi,

I’m working on the starting point tier 1 challenge “Responder”. I’ve successfully run responder to retrieve the NTLM hash and cracked it with John the Ripper. But when I go to use those credentials to start looking for the flag file, it fails with the following error:

evil-winrm -i ipaddress -u administrator -p thecorrectpassword

Evil-WinRM shell v3.4

Warning: Remote path completions is disabled due to ruby limitation: quoting_detection_proc() function is unimplemented on this machine

Data: For more information, check Evil-WinRM Github: https://github.com/Hackplayers/evil-winrm#Remote-path-completion

Info: Establishing connection to remote endpoint

Error: An error of type OpenSSL::Digest::DigestError happened, message is Digest initialization failed: initialization error

Error: Exiting with code 1

At this point I decided to cheat and view the walkthrough, thinking that I was missing something important, but it just uses the exact command that I did. Any idea what’s going wrong? I’ve reset the machine and also recreated it, without success.

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Just to follow up on this; I came back this week and spawned a fresh VM, and it worked fine.

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Full updating Kali worked for me. I tried ammending the .ovpn to include a line, mentioned in another thread i think, but the .ovpn file alread had it.

update
update1444×1064 125 KB

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Make sure to use TCP based VPN. With UDP based VPN i see an error:

VPN:
read UDPv4 [EMSGSIZE Path-MTU=1452]: Message too long (fd=3,code=90)

evil-winrm:
Error: An error of type HTTPClient::ReceiveTimeoutError happened, message is execution expired

Error: Exiting with code 1

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Switching from UDP to TCP based VPN connection fixed the issue for me.

Thanks @Carlos1andOnly!