Magikarp Ground Mission

Overview

Points: 30 Category: General Skills

Description

Do you know how to move between directories and read files in the shell? Start the container, ssh to it, and then ls once connected to begin. Login via ssh as ctf-player with the password, 6d448c9c

Hints

1. Finding a cheatsheet for bash would be really helpful!

Approach

Hmm start by connecting to the server with ssh ctf-player@venus.picoctf.net -p 50713 and 6d448c9c as the password like the question says.

Using ls lists 1of3.flag.txt instructions-to-2of3.txt

With cat 1of3.flag.txt, we get

picoCTF{xxsh_

cat instructions-to-2of3.txt says

Next, go to the root of all things, more succinctly `/`

I typed in cd .. (go back a directory) then ls -a (list all because I have trust issues with hidden files) and came across 3of3.flag.txt

cat 3of3.flag.txt gave

5190b070}

I kept going back (with cd ..) and listing the files and directories (ls -a) until 2of3.flag.txt appeared.

cat 2of3.flag.txt gave

0ut_0f_\/\/4t3r_

Flag

picoCTF{xxsh_0ut_0f_//4t3r_5190b070}