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Access
SSH: ssh groot8@groot.underthewire.tech -p 22
Password: srpapi_home
Info
The password for groot9 is the description of the firewall rule blocking MySQL PLUS the name of the file on the desktop. NOTE: – If the description of the rule is “blue” and the file on the desktop is named “_bob”, the password would be “blue_bob”. – 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 whatever firewall is blocking MySQL. For that, all we have to do is get the firewall rules, and find which one has something containing MySQL. Then also of course, the dir command to get the other part of the password. And the commands are:
dir Get-NetFirewallRule -Action Block | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*mysql*'}
Solution
Now that we are inside the shell, we can see what the second part of the command is with dir:
PS C:\users\Groot8\desktop> dir Directory: C:\users\Groot8\desktop Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a---- 8/30/2018 10:51 AM 0 _starlord
We can now use the other command to see the description of the firewall for some reason against mysql:
PS C:\users\Groot8\desktop> Get-NetFirewallRule -Action Block | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*mysql*'} Name : {8ce6b97d-5c1d-4347-a7fd-1792feb42355} DisplayName : MySQL Description : call_me DisplayGroup : Group : Enabled : True Profile : Any Platform : {} Direction : Inbound Action : Block EdgeTraversalPolicy : Block LooseSourceMapping : False LocalOnlyMapping : False Owner : PrimaryStatus : OK Status : The rule was parsed successfully from the store. (65536) EnforcementStatus : NotApplicable PolicyStoreSource : PersistentStore PolicyStoreSourceType : Local
Okay, just grab the description and join it with the name of the file, and we get this:
call_me_starlord
And that's the password! Now we should be good to go to the next level.
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