Hacking Insights by Max Bautista

Alien Cradle writeup

Challenge name: Alien Cradle

Difficulty: 

Challenge Scenario: In an attempt for the aliens to find more information about the relic, they launched an attack targeting Pandora’s close friends and partners that may know any secret information about it. During a recent incident believed to be operated by them, Pandora located a weird PowerShell script from the event logs, otherwise called PowerShell cradle. These scripts are usually used to download and execute the next stage of the attack. However, it seems obfuscated, and Pandora cannot understand it. Can you help her deobfuscate it?

Link: https://app.hackthebox.com/challenges/Alien%2520Cradle?tab=play_challenge

Machine IP: NA

Unzipped the file the challenge came with. Read it.

It’s a sort of powershell script but you can see the flag in the script. Put the flag together and submitted it.

GG