routarded starts you out with a hint in the challenge description that the target webpage is a router with default credentials. After trying a bunch of default router combinations, @jonathansinger found a working combination of <blank>:admin. This pops you into the management site of this fake router, which has a promising diagnostics page. We went… Read more »
hackertool had a torrent with a single large file: every_ip_address.txt. After downloading a few chunks, I opened it in a text editor and found that it the file was a consecutive list of IP addresses going from 0.0.0.0 to (presumably) 255.255.255.255. Instead of waiting for it to download, Alex Lynch had the idea for us to generate it… Read more »
For this challenge belonging to the 2014 RuCTF Qualifiers, we are provided with a hyperlink that takes us to a simplified web application. The web challenge for 200 points is titled ES, which we soon learn stands for the web application’s…
For this challenge, we are given a set of Cisco router configs as well as a visual topology. The challenge is to find a missing config line in R1.
Recon 400 – Landlord Along with the standard prompt we are given our focus for the challenge. To name the landlord of Olimpiada Balalaykina. With the information gathered from Recon 100 we return to our Launchpad, Vk.com and view our target’s profile. Viewing her profile we see under “House” in her information she has “garages.blocks.daisy”…. Read more »
Recon 100 – Favorite Book We start off the challenge with the standard prompt, the two important bits of information are the name of the target: Olimpiada Balalaykina. We also get the name of someone she would like to meet someday. Pavel Durov, we can assume this is a hint. Then we get the focus… Read more »