Posts

Showing posts from March, 2018

Fun with Flags - Sans Holiday Hack 2017 Challenge 3

Image
Read Time: 10 Minutes Keeping to the " Fun with Flags ", this post will demonstrate how I solved the third challenge for the  SANS Holiday Hack 2017 .  Building on the content in my last couple posts, see  Challenge 1  and Challenge 2 , I demonstrate how the Console Challenge was solved and any hacking required to capture the actual flag. Figure 1: Fun with Flags Staarfaenger For Challenge 3 the following question is posed:  "The North Pole engineering team uses a Windows SMB server for sharing documentation and correspondence. Using your access to the Letters to Santa server, identify and enumerate the SMB file-sharing server. What is the file server share name?" The hint "...please see Holly Evergreen in the Cryokinetic Magic Level" is provided.  So heading over to the challenge we try to locate our first terminal which can be seen in  Figure 2: Finding the Third Terminal. Figure 2: Finding the Third Terminal After a left click you a