A little more #CTF fun today on #Tryhackme as Capture the Flag – Skynet revealed some surprise.

I spent a little time today with a CTF on Tryhackme. Today’s room was titled “Skynet”. I kinda like the way the title and story these rooms. Hackers are so creative 😉

I think this room was pretty easy, but I did see some interesting development near the end where I found what appeared to be remnants of other people’s code runs trying to get root using the same technique for ‘tar’ that I was using. I wonder if anyone else has seen this or was this just extra trouble thrown in to see how we cope. I think if I had little or no experience with Linux it would have prooved a very difficult challenge.

Anyway I try to include my thought process in the notes so you can see how I try to work around caveats.

Feel free to check out my walkthrough and let me know your experience with it.

https://github.com/c0ri/PentestingDocs/blob/main/CTFs/THM/Skynet.md

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