🖥️ Challenge / Machine Info

  • Platform: proving-grounds
  • Name / Title: sunsetdecoy
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Target OS / Environment: Linux
  • Key Vulnerability Focus: Zip cracking / SUID chroot

Walkthrough

  1. Foothold: Download ackup.zip via FTP, crack zip password using John, extract SSH keys.
  2. Privilege Escalation: SUID /usr/sbin/chroot allows executing commands as root.