Fun with Flags - Sans Holiday Hack 2017 Challenge 2
Read Time: 15 Minutes Keeping to the " Fun with Flags " theme, this post will demonstrate how I solved the second challenge for the SANS Holiday Hack 2017 . Building on my last post, that dealt specifically with Challenge 1 , I will follow the same roadmap by focusing on console challenges and any hacking required to answer/capture the relevant flags. Figure 1: Fun with Flags Staarfaenger For Challenge 2 the following question is posed: "Investigate the Letters to Santa application at https://l2s.northpolechristmastown.com . What is the topic of The Great Book page available in the web root of the server? What is Alabaster Snowball's password?". The "...hints associated with this challenge, Sparkle Redberry in the Winconceivable: The Cliffs of Winsanity Level can provide some tips." is provided. So heading over to the challenge we try to locate our first terminal as seen in Figure 2: Finding the SecondTerminal. Figure 2: Finding t...