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NIS - Linux Part I

TryHackMe28 answered prompts

NIS - Linux Part I TryHackMe walkthrough with 28 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

  • What is the user you are logged in to in the first room of Linux Fundamentals Part 1?
    tryhackme
  • What badge do you receive when you complete all the Linux Fundamentals rooms?
    cat linux.txt
  • How do you run the ls command?
    ls
  • How do you run the ls command to show all the files inside the folder?
    ls -a
  • How do you run the ls command to not show the current directory and the previous directory in the output? (almost everything)
    ls -A
  • How do you show the information in a long listing format using ls?
    ls -l
  • How do you show the size in readable format? e.g. k, Mb, etc
    ls -h
  • How do you do a recursive ls?
    ls --recursive
  • How many files did you locate in the home folder of the user?(non-hidden and not inside other folders)
    13
  • What is the content of cat.txt?
    THM{11aadbee391acdffee901}
  • What is the content of tac.txt?
    THM{acab0111aaa687912139}
  • What is the content of head.txt?
    THM{894abac55f7962abc166}
  • What is the content of tail.txt?
    THM{1689acafdd20751acff6}
  • What is the content of the xxd.txt?
    THM{fac1aab210d6e4410acd}
  • What is the content of base64.txt?
    THM{aa462c1b2d44801c0a31}
  • How many .txt files did you find in the current folder?
    8
  • How many SUID files have you found inside the home folder?
    0
  • How many times does the word "hacker" appear in the grep files? (including variations)
    15
  • Is the user allowed to run the above command? (Yay/Nay)
    Nay
  • What command would you use to echo the word "Hackerman" ?
    echo "Hackerman"
  • How would you read all files with extension .bak using xargs?
    find / -name *.bak -type f -print | xargs /bin/cat
  • How would you grab the headers silently of https://tryhackme.com but grepping only the HTTP status code?
    curl -I -s https://tryhackme.com | grep HTTP
  • What command would you run to get the flag.txt from https://tryhackme.com/ ?
    wget https://tryhackme.com/flag.txt
  • What command would you run to download recursively up to level 5 from https://tryhackme.com ?
    wget -r -l 10 https://tryhackme.com
  • What is the flag from the tar file?
    THM{C0FFE1337101}
  • What is the content of gzip.txt?
    THM{0AFDECC951A}
  • What is the flag inside the 7zip file?
    THM{526accdf94}
  • What is the content of binwalk.txt?
    THM{af5548a12bc2de}