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Mission 0x22

🔎 Solution​

After connecting via SSH as eloise, the next task is to retrieve lucia's password.

eloise@venus:~$ cat mission.txt 
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# MISSION 0x22 #
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## EN ##
User lucia has been creative in saving her password.

In the current directory, there is a file named hi containing a hexadecimal string:

eloise@venus:~$ cat hi
00000000: 7576 4d77 4644 5172 5157 504d 6547 500a

Decoding the hex string reveals lucia's password:

eloise@venus:~$ cat hi | xxd -r -p
uvMwFDQrQWPMeGP

Using the recovered password, a new SSH session is initiated:

ssh lucia@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000

Finally, reading the file exposes the flag:

lucia@venus:~$ cat flagz.txt 
8===5Sr2pqeVTmn8RaaPmTPE===D~~

🚩Flag​

8===5Sr2pqeVTmn8RaaPmTPE===D~~