UnderTheWire Cyborg Guide

Previous Level Guide: Cyborg Level 6 → 7

Access

SSH: ssh cyborg7@cyborg.underthewire.tech -p 22

Password: cybergeddon

Info

The password for cyborg8 is the executable name of a program that will start automatically when cyborg7 logs in.

NOTE:
– The password will be lowercase no matter how it appears on the screen.

▼ HINT:
The Run key in the registry seems like a good place to look…

Theory

To get the password, we just need to look for the name of the program executed in startup, it's a pretty simple thing that can be looked up with the command getCIMinstance thing, because the command is used to retrieve information about the computer system or its users, so we can just search for the startup commands, and we'll see what the name of the program is running when logging in the level:

Get-CimInstance Win32_StartupCommand

Solution

I think now all we have to do is just look up the startup programs command and it should be it:

PS C:\users\cyborg7\desktop> Get-CimInstance Win32_StartupCommand

Command                            User                 Caption
-------                            ----                 -------
C:\program files\SkyNet\skynet.exe underthewire\cyborg7 SKYNET

There we go! Now we just need to make it lowercase like the description says, and we get this:

skynet

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