HackMyVM — Venus: Mission 1 to 10

Chapter 1: Venus — Mission 1 to 10

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Host: venus.hackmyvm.eu

Port: 5000

User: hacker

Pass: havefun!

• let's login using ssh hacker@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000
• description ssh user@host -p (port number)
• after logging in:

Mission 1

• we can use the ls command to list the contents of the directory
• cat is used the print the file contents as output
• so the password is saved in a hidden file
• let's try ls -a
• the -a is used to list hidden files (read more about it using man ls)

• We get the password for the next level!!
• Now we have to login as sophia using the obtained password
• we can use su sophia
• su is used to switch users or run a command with a substitute user
• so here we are switching the user to sophia
• when we try ls we get a permission denied message
• now let's go back a directory cd .. and ls
• we can find many users, let's go to sophia

• here we can find the flag and the next mission!

Mission 2

• For this mission, we have to find a file called whereismypazz.txt
• we can use a command find
• find / -name whereismypazz.txt -type f 2>/dev/null
• here / tells to find from the root directory
• -name flag is used to specify the name
• -type f is used to specify the type of files here -f mentions files, -d is used for directories
• 2>/dev/null is a file descriptor used to dump all the errors and not display them in the output

• now we can log in as angela and proceed to the next mission

Mission 3

• The password for emma is stored in line 4069 of the file findme.txt
• We can read through each line of the file, but there is a more efficient way to do it
• we can use cat and grep
• cat -n findme.txt | grep "4069"
• cat -n numbers all the output lines
• once the lines are numbered, we can grep them (check man grep)

Mission 4

• cat ./-

Mission 5

• find / -name hereiam -type d 2>/dev/null

Mission 6

• find . -type f

Mission 7

• find / -type f -size 6969c 2>/dev/null

Mission 8

• find / -type f -user violin 2>/dev/null

Mission 9

• since we don't have permissions, we should create a directory in the /tmp directory
• unzip passw0rd.zip -d /tmp/hj
• -d is used to mention an optional directory to which to extract files

Mission 10

• cat passy | grep -i "^a9HFX"
• grep is used to find strings in a text file
• -i is used to match strings irrespective of the case(lower or upper)
• ^ used to denote the start of the string

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