A beginner-friendly walkthrough covering Nmap, Gobuster, encoding, steganography, SSH and cron-based privilege escalation.

Description : Do you have what it takes to defeat me and claim your prize?

A hands-on log of enumeration, decoding, hash cracking, hidden-data extraction, remote login, and privilege escalation on a Linux target.

1. Connect to the TryHackMe VPN

The setup

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