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TryHackMe13 answered prompts

Password Attacks TryHackMe walkthrough with 13 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

  • Which type of password attack is performed locally?
    Password cracking
  • What are the default login credentials (in the format of username:password) for a Juniper Networks ISG 2000 device? Make sure to check the hint.
    netscreen:netscreen
  • Run the following crunch command:crunch 2 2 01234abcd -o crunch.txt. How many words did crunch generate?
    81
  • What is the crunch command to generate a list containing THM@% and output to a file named tryhackme.txt?
    crunch 5 5 -t "THM^^" -o tryhackme.txt
  • Considering the following hash: 8d6e34f987851aa599257d3831a1af040886842f. What is the hash type?
    sha-1
  • Perform a dictionary attack against the following hash: 8d6e34f987851aa599257d3831a1af040886842f. What is the cracked value? Use rockyou.txt wordlist.
    sunshine
  • Perform a brute-force attack against the following MD5 hash: e48e13207341b6bffb7fb1622282247b. What is the cracked value? Note the password is a 4 digit number: [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
    1337
  • What syntax would you use to create a rule to produce the following: "S[Word]NN where N is Number and S is a symbol of !@?
    Az"[0-9][0-9]" ^[!@]
  • Can you guess the FTP credentials without brute-forcing? What is the flag?
    THM{d0abe799f25738ad739c20301aed357b}
  • What is the password? Note that the password format is as follows: [symbol][dictionary word][0-9][0-9].
    !multidisciplinary00
  • Perform a brute-forcing attack against the phillips account for the login page at http://MACHINE_IP/login-get using hydra? What is the flag?
    THM{33c5d4954da881814420f3ba39772644}
  • Perform a rule-based password attack to gain access to the burgess account. Find the flag at the following website: http://MACHINE_IP/login-post/. What is the flag?
    THM{f8e3750cc0ccbb863f2706a3b2933227}
  • Perform a password spraying attack to get access to the SSH://MACHINE_IP server to read /etc/flag. What is the flag?
    THM{a97a26e86d09388bbea148f4b870277d}