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Can you penetrate the defenses and become root?

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75 min

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After rummaging through a colleages drawer during a security audit, you find a USB key with an interesting file, you think its hiding something, use the data on the key to penetrate his workstation, and become root.

This room contains steganography and may be difficult. If you are finding it difficult to overcome, read the hint for flag 1.

Being able to analyse a file and determine its contents is important. Once you extract the hidden file in the image, there will be further work to do.

Remember, password reuse is bad practice.

Answer the questions below
I have downloaded the file

I have extracted the hidden file with steghide.

Set up your virtual environment

To successfully complete this room, you'll need to set up your virtual environment. This involves starting both your AttackBox (if you're not using your VPN) and Target Machines, ensuring you're equipped with the necessary tools and access to tackle the challenges ahead.
Attacker machine
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Lab machine
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You extracted some files, and now you will attempt to penetrate the system.

Answer the questions below

What is Flag 1?

What is User1 flag?

What is User2 flag?

What is root's flag?