Today we have another challenge, into which we have to ssh and get the flag from santa.

Altough 2018 edition of OverTheWire Advent Bonanza has ended, I decided to come back and try to pwn challenges that I could not finish during the competition. For the first one, I’ve wanted to try the naughtykit.

Matrix is a medium level boot2root challenge. The OVA has been tested on both VMware and Virtual Box.

Task is to become root and read /root/flag.txt.

Two french people want to start the very first fanclub of the youtuber Khaos Farbauti Ibn Oblivion. But they’re not very security aware! (IMPORTANT NOTE: The whole challenge is in french including server conf. Which may add to the difficulty if you are non-native or using a non-azerty keyboard)