Hey I’m just going back and doing the starting point machines as I haven’t been around for a while, but currently Archetype is blocking common reverse shell payloads from running. I’m no fancy big city expert, but AV bypass as part of a starting point challenge feels a bit out of place.
Is something broken with the machine? I’m learning obfuscation techniques now so I’ll keep trying harder either way.
Seeing the same thing. I had to edit the code provided in the walkthrough in order to gain foothold. I’m working on privesc now and have admin credentials, but the walkthrough tooling isn’t working.
Not sure how much more specific I can get - are spoilers permitted for boxes with official posted walkthroughs?
I ended up getting through it, don’t know if it was a misconfiguration or not.
user: Rather than following the walkthrough or yeeting typical payloads to catch a shell, I downloaded a nice common networking tool onto the box and used that instead.
root: I might have needed a better quality shell, because even though I was able to elevate myself my new more powerful shell wasn’t able to be used properly. l ended up finding a different way to get the flag.
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Seeing the same thing. I had to edit the code provided in the walkthrough in order to gain foothold. I’m working on privesc now and have admin credentials, but the walkthrough tooling isn’t working.
Not sure how much more specific I can get - are spoilers permitted for boxes with official posted walkthroughs?
With retired machines or Starting Points with official walk-through, you can spoil as much as you can. You will not get any points with these ones so feel free to be as open as possible 