?? Cybersecurity Journey Update: Inkplot Challenge Completed on HackMyVM!
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I took on the Inkplot challenge, not as a tutorial but as a practice project to deepen my cybersecurity skills.
Here are the key steps I took:
- Uncovered intriguing chat details, like Leila's interruption of Alice sharing MD5 hash with Bob.
- Wrote a brute force script to recover the hash and password, granting SSH access as user Leila.
- Discovered 'Leila' can execute script as 'Pauline'. Explored RC4 encryption vulnerability for access.
- Leveraged RC4 weakness to access Pauline's id_rsa key, then found the 'admin' group and access to 'system-sleep' folder.
- Designed script for SUID permission to bash shell, achieving ROOT access and completing the 'inkplot' machine!
Learning and practicing concepts in action! ??????
