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PrintNightmare, thrice!

TryHackMe10 answered prompts

PrintNightmare, thrice! TryHackMe walkthrough with 10 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

  • What remote address did the employee navigate to?
    20.188.56.147
  • Per the PCAP, which user returns a STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE error?
    THM-PRINTNIGHT0\rjones
  • Which user successfully connects to an SMB share?
    THM-PRINTNIGHT0/gentilguest
  • What is the first remote SMB share the endpoint connected to? What was the first filename? What was the second? (format: answer,answer,answer)
    \\printnightmare.gentilkiwi.com\IPC$,srvsvc,spoolss
  • From which remote SMB share was malicious DLL obtained? What was the path to the remote folder for the first DLL? How about the second? (format: answer,answer,answer)
    \\printnightmare.gentilkiwi.com\print$,\x64\3\mimispool.dll,\W32X86\3\mimispool.dll
  • What was the first location the malicious DLL was downloaded to on the endpoint? What was the second?
    C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\X64\3,C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\W32X86\3
  • What is the folder that has the name of the remote printer server the user connected to? (provide the full folder path)
    C:\Windows\System32\spool\SERVERS\printnightmare.gentilkiwi.com
  • What is the name of the printer the DLL added?
    Kiwi Legit Printer
  • What was the process ID for the elevated command prompt? What was its parent process? (format: answer,answer)
    5408,spoolsv.exe
  • What command did the user perform to elevate privileges?
    net localgroup administrators rjones /add