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TryHackMe18 answered prompts
Secret Recipe TryHackMe walkthrough with 18 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.
Prompts and answers
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How many Files are available in the Artifacts folder on the Desktop?
6
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What is the Computer Name of the Machine found in the registry?
JAMES
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When was the Administrator account created on this machine? (Format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)
2021-03-17 14:58:48
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What is the RID associated with the Administrator account?
500
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How many User accounts were observed on this machine?
7
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There seems to be a suspicious account created as a backdoor with RID 1013. What is the Account Name?
bdoor
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What is the VPN connection this host connected to?
ProtonVPN
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When was the first VPN connection observed? (Format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)
2022-10-12 19:52:36
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There were three shared folders observed on his machine. What is the path of the third share?
C:\RESTRICTED FILES
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What is the Last DHCP IP assigned to this host?
172.31.2.197
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The suspect seems to have accessed a file containing the secret coffee recipe. What is the name of the file?
secret-recipe.pdf
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The suspect ran multiple commands in the run windows. What command was run to enumerate the network interfaces?
pnputil /enum-interfaces
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In the file explorer, the user searched for a network utility to transfer files. What is the name of that tool?
netcat
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What is the recent text file opened by the suspect?
secret-code.txt
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How many times was Powershell executed on this host?
3
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The suspect also executed a network monitoring tool. What is the name of the tool?
wireshark
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Registry Hives also notes the amount of time a process is in focus. Examine the Hives. For how many seconds was ProtonVPN executed?
343
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Everything.exe is a utility used to search for files in a Windows machine. What is the full path from which everything.exe was executed?
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\tools\Everything\Everything.exe