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Preferential Treatment

March 29, 2025
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Challenge Description

We have an old Windows Server 2008 instance that we lost the password for. Can you see if you can find one in this packet capture?

Solution

conversation -> tcp 1 -> follow stream

Decrypt cpassword with gpp-password

Terminal window
gpp-decrypt dAw7VQvfj9rs53A8t4PudTVf85Ca5cmC1Xjx6TpI/cS8WD4D8DXbKiWIZslihdJw3Rf+ijboX7FgLW7pF0K6x7dfhQ8gxLq34ENGjN8eTOI=
swampCTF{4v3r463_w1nd0w5_53cur17y}