UnderTheWire Groot Guide

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Access

SSH: ssh groot13@groot.underthewire.tech -p 22

Password: utw_team_ned

Info

The password for groot15 is the description of the share whose name contains “task” in it PLUS the name of the file on the desktop.

NOTE:
– If the description is “frozen_pizza” and the file on the desktop is named “_sucks”, the password would be “frozen_pizza_sucks”.
– The password will be lowercase no matter how it appears on the screen.

Theory

To get the password, as the description says, we're told to find the description of the share with task in its name. So for that we can use the smb share to get the information about this share that has task on its name with some asterisks there, you see that? And then as always the dir command to get the second part of the password in the name of the file in the desktop. And these commands are:

dir
Get-SmbShare -Name "*task*"

Solution

Now that we are inside the shell, we can get the other part of the password with dir:

PS C:\users\Groot14\desktop> dir


    Directory: C:\users\Groot14\desktop


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        8/30/2018  10:51 AM              0 _8

Now let's run the other command to get the first half of the password:

PS C:\users\Groot14\desktop> Get-SmbShare -Name "*task*"

Name   ScopeName Path Description
----   --------- ---- -----------
Tasker *              scheduled_things

Now just grab the description of the Tasker thing, and join it with the name of the file in the desktop. And we get this as our password:

scheduled_things_8

And that's the password! Now we should be good to go to the next level.