TryHackMe writeup: BadByte

BadByte (“electronforce” and “Raccooninja”, 2020) is a TryHackMe room where the user is to “[i]nfiltrate BadByte and help us to take over root.” This was a pretty fun experience: I got to nmap the local services on the target machine (because ss was not on the system) and learnt about the bash.log file. This article serves to document my process in obtaining both the user and root flags in the room.