Mirai
Gaining Access
Nmap scan:
SSH Default Credentials
Checking port 80 reveals a Pi-Hole dashboard:
There's a login function, and I managed to login with default credentials of pi:raspberry. I also tried to SSH in as pi using these credentials, and it worked for some reason:
Privilege Escalation
Flag Finding
I was able to run sudo su on this machine and search for root.txt:
Interesting, because the root flag is where on a USB stick. Now, the backup would probably be some file in a different format and compressed. We know that the flag is a string, so we can use strings to get it out. It is stored at /dev/sdb.
This would give us the flag once we search the input sufficiently.
