Mr. Robot

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Based on the Mr. Robot show, can you root this box? Can you root this Mr. Robot styled machine? This is a virtual machine meant for beginners/intermediate users. There are 3 hidden keys located on the machine, can you find them?

Let’s start off with an Nmap scan to look for any open ports and possible vulnerable services

root@ip-10-10-252-80:~# nmap -sT -sC -sV -T4 -p- 10.10.150.167

Starting Nmap 7.60 ( <https://nmap.org> ) at 2024-06-07 07:24 BST
Nmap scan report for ip-10-10-150-167.eu-west-1.compute.internal (10.10.150.167)
Host is up (0.0010s latency).
Not shown: 65532 filtered ports
PORT    STATE  SERVICE  VERSION
22/tcp  closed ssh
80/tcp  open   http     Apache httpd
|_http-server-header: Apache
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
443/tcp open   ssl/http Apache httpd
|_http-server-header: Apache
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=www.example.com
| Not valid before: 2015-09-16T10:45:03
|_Not valid after:  2025-09-13T10:45:03
MAC Address: 02:3C:16:7F:9F:1D (Unknown)

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at <https://nmap.org/submit/> .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 104.07 seconds
root@ip-10-10-252-80:~#