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Fear The Necromancer!
After the success of my first boot2root, The Wall, I decided I would create another challenge. Welcome to The Necromancer! There are 11 flags to collect on your way to solving the challenging, and the difficulty level is considered as beginner. The end goal is simple… destroy The Necromancer! I hope everyone enjoys the challenge. […]
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Whois Mr Robot
It has been a while since I have had a crack at any of the boot2root boxes over at vulnhub, so when I saw the following tweet saying there was a Mr Robot inspired VM released I could not hold back! Like always… let’s see what ports are open. Port 80 and 443; nice. Let’s […]
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Fully Sick(Os) 1.2 mate
It’s been a while since I have looked at any boot2root challenges, so let’s have a crack at SickOs: 1.2 by @D4rk36 “This is second in following series from SickOs and is independent of the prior releases, scope of challenge is to gain highest privileges on the system.” Bit of a side note before we […]
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Recently I created my first boot2root challenge, The Wall for the Vulnhub community. I hope everyone enjoys the challenge, and here’s my writeup of the intended path to root. “In 1965, one of the most influential bands of our times was formed.. Pink Floyd. This boot2root box has been created to celebrate 50 years of […]
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Mystery of the NullByte
The flickering neon sign in the street once brightly read “Forensic Investigator”, but now it only serves to send shards of sporadic light into the cracks and crevices that call this neighbourhood home. If you watch the colours long enough, you could almost be convinced that the flicker is morse code for ‘failure’. Looking at […]
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Acid … just say NO to drugs!
If you follow @Vulnhub you would have noticed that there has recently been quite a few new vulnerable boot2root machines released. Needless to say, you know what time it is… It’s boot2root CTF time! Introducing Acid Server: 1 by @m_avinash143. Welcome to the world of Acid. Fairy tails uses secret keys to open the magical […]
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A freshly squeezed cup of pwnage
Rainy weather can only mean one thing… VulnHub challenge time. Today’s menu @TopHatSec’s Freshly challenge. The goal of this challenge is to break into the machine via the web and find the secret hidden in a sensitive file. If you can find the secret, send me an email for verification. :) There are a couple […]
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Hat tipping TopHatSec ZorZ style
Time for another VulnHub challenge, and this time I decided to take a look at @TopHatSec’s ZORZ challenge. ZORZ is another VM that will challenge your webapp skills. There are 3 separate challenges (web pages) on this machine. It should be pretty straight forward. I have explained as much as I can in the readme […]
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A Thousand Ways to Skin the Sokar Cat
Happy Birthday Vulnhub! As promised at our birthday party last week, we’d like to announce the release of our first competition in 2015…. Sokar! Rasta Mouse (the person to thank and/or blame regarding Kvasir) didn’t bake us a birthday cake, but instead cooked up a brand new virtual machine for you to attack and have […]
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Craniocerebral injury; brainpan style
It would come to no surprise to most of you that I am addicted to boot2root challenges. Every day I learn something new, and every day I become more and more inspired and passionate about the infosec landscape. Recently I took part in my first boot2root CTF, VulnHub’s Sokar challenge. Having completed the challenge (the […]
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kioptrix – level 1
Kioptrix Level 1 was created by @loneferret and is the first in the series of five. The description from the author is as follows: “This Kioptrix VM Image are easy challenges. The object of the game is to acquire root access via any means possible (except actually hacking the VM server or player). The purpose […]
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Trolls are still present!
I enjoy a good a challenge, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting through Maleus’ (@maleus) Tr0ll: 1 boot2root VM. I submitted my Tr0ll:1 walkthrough to vulnhub and shortly after gloating about my success on twitter, I am presented with the following reply: Challenge accepted (@maleus)! Bring on Tr0ll: 2! The next machine in the Tr0ll series […]