Mission 0x11

🔎 Solution

After logging in via SSH as violet, the objective was similar to the previous task: retrieve a password from a file based on a pattern. This time, instead of the line starting with a specific string, the hint in mission.txt indicated that the password belongs to the line that ends with 0JuAZ. Those last five characters are not part of the password.

To locate the correct line, I used grep:

violet@venus:~$ cat end | grep "0JuAZ"
OCmMUjebG53giud0JuAZ

The matching line clearly ends with the marker, so removing the last five characters gives the password:

OCmMUjebG53giud

With the password recovered, I connected to the next user:

ssh lucy@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000

Inside the account, reading the provided file revealed the next flag:

lucy@venus:~$ cat flagz.txt 
8===AdCJ4wl8pmbhi770Xbd3===D~~

🚩Flag

8===AdCJ4wl8pmbhi770Xbd3===D~~