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Silk Road

hackerlab

Task: a 4 GB VirtualBox VM disk image (Debian, user 'ross') themed around Silk Road with 3 hidden flag fragments. Solution: extract ext4 from VMDK with 7z, recover fragment 1 from bash_history (failed deletion), fragment 2 from PNG tEXt Author metadata in Trash, fragment 3 from Firefox backup logins decrypted with firepwd.py.

vmdk virtualbox ext4 disk_forensics bash_history firefox_decrypt png_metadata steganography keepassxc veracrypt silk_road ross_ulbricht opsec trash_analysis multi_fragment_flag

vmdk_extraction_with_7zext4_analysis_without_mountingbash_history_forensicspng_text_chunk_metadata_extractionfirefox_password_decryption_firepwdmulti_fragment_flag_assemblytrash_artifact_analysisbinary_file_comparison

$ ls tags/ techniques/

vmdk virtualbox ext4 disk_forensics bash_history firefox_decrypt png_metadata steganography keepassxc veracrypt silk_road ross_ulbricht opsec trash_analysis multi_fragment_flag

Analysis

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$ python3 exploit.py --target 192.168.1.1 --port 8080
[*] Connecting to target...
[+] Shell obtained!

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