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TryHackMe18 answered prompts

Secret Recipe TryHackMe walkthrough with 18 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

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