TryHackMe Certs

A kind fellow bought me a 30-day membership to Premium TryHackMe, so I decided to get some of their certificates whilst I was able to. 

I also got this one last Christmas, although whilst I'm sticking them all here, I might as well include this one too.

Wireshark - Filtering for a Port Knocking sequence

In a recent CTF, I was required to analyze a .pcapng file to find a Port Knocking sequence. I didn't know an easy way to do this, and Google only gave up some half useful answers, so after a bit of research, I decided to write this post in the hopes that someone may stumble upon it in the future :)

Filter: (tcp.flags.reset eq 1) && (tcp.flags.ack eq 1)

Before

After

Make sure that the order number is correct (The "No." column goes from lowest to highest), and read the Port number on the left in the "Info" column.

In this case, the sequence is 7864, 8273, 9241, 12007, 60753, so a:

> knock 10.10.35.61 7864 8273 9241 12007 60753 -t 500

Would get you what you need. 

I found that sometimes you might need to knock 2 or 3 times before the filtered port opens for some reason, but there you go!

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What looks like binary, but isn't?

Whilst doing a CTF, I came across a crypto challenge similar to the following that looked like binary:

11111111110010001010101110101111111010111111111101101101101100000110100100101111111111111100101001011110010100000000000010100110111100101001001011111111111001010011111111111111100101001011100101000101011110010100000000000000000000000000010101110010100111110010100110010100101111100101001010010100110111111111111111111111111111100101001111111111111111111111110010100100100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010100100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010100010101111111001010000000000001010111111111111111001010

After it failed decoding AS binary, I tried the Magic option on CyberChef which failed, and several variations of the Baconian cipher - Which also failed.

After much searching and many failings, I came across Spoon - An esoteric programming language whose code looks like binary. A quick Google search led me to this online interpreter from dCode. Pasting in the text and clicking the "Execute" button got me the result I needed!

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