Root Me: Network - TELNET - authentication

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2 min readMar 26, 2019

Category: [Network]

Networks challenges where you have to deal with captured traffic, network services, packet analysis, etc

The following set of problems deal with network traffic including different protocols. You need to analyse the packet captures to solve these challenges.

Prerequisites:

  • Knowledge of a network capture analyzing tool.
  • Knowledge of the most common network protocols.

https://www.root-me.org/en/Challenges/Network/TELNET-authentication

Statement

Find the user password in this TELNET session capture.

We can get a ch2.pcap from this challenge. Use wireshark to open the file and click on “Follow on TCP stream”.

After that, we can see the whole message of TELNET TCP stream from the displayed window and get the username and the password as well.

Got it!

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