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Sidney 0.2 CTF Walkthrough
Welcome to the walkthrough of the boot2root virtual machine Sidney which is available on vulnhub.com. I found this machine quite interesting and its level is easy / intermediate. Our machine: Initially I had a problem in connecting or getting the IP. If you face similar issues, change the MAC address of the machine and then try again to find the IP address. In my case the IP was 192.168.225.36 as you can see below: So, let’s start going after the flag and we know that the very first start with that is by doing enumeration. I started by doing an nmap scan to look for open ports: As you … [Read More...]
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