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Bluesman
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30 days ago

Your first lab level 9

What was the first level 9 lab you conquered? :).

It does not matter that you will seek advice from other giants, or that you will manage to complete it on your own: share your journey with us!; to get the token or become root on that server.

I start: I think that my first conquest of Lab level 9 is related to debugging ByteCode in Java (and only a few days ago!): my background is Oracle, and from years ago, so imagine how lost I was :).

After loading the project into the IDE (along with the required plugin) I started debugging bit by bit... until one particular string caught my attention; it stood out from the rest!.

And it was the solution :).

Good luck!

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  • Xat's avatar
    Xat
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    25 days ago

    I believe my first level 9 lab was 'Pen Test CTFs: Immersive Bakery', given that I just (this weekend) finished the last lab in Cyber Experts and earned my Cyber Experts Badge.
    These labs definitely require a lot of research outside of Immersive, reading through CVEs or other guides.

  • steven's avatar
    steven
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    21 days ago

    puuuh... according to the report it was an mini CTF lab. I started IL in October 2022 so took me some months to do it. I remember I quite stuck on the LightNeuron and Cereal Killer. Took me months..no weeks to solve it :)

    Mini CTFs: MongoDB SQL Injection2023-03-20 11:57:02 UTC
    Pen Test CTFs: Immersive Bakery2023-04-20 15:58:41 UTC
    Pedro Ribeiro: Cereal Killer2023-04-24 14:17:13 UTC
    Linux Stack Overflow: Ep.6 – Demonstrate Your Skills2024-06-05 12:25:42 UTC
    Erik McClements: Linux Filesystem Race Conditions2024-10-22 23:17:07 UTC
    DFIR CTF: LightNeuron DLL2024-10-23 11:41:34 UTC
    Kevin Breen: Java Reverse Engineering2024-11-06 13:33:06 UTC
    Pedro Ribeiro: ASLR Bypass2024-11-07 12:13:28 UTC
    Pen Test CTFs: Jinja2 Exploitation2025-01-12 18:03:59 UTC
    Audio Steganography2025-01-28 13:43:06 UTC
    World Cup Special: Immersive Squad2025-03-14 10:02:12 UTC
  • barney's avatar
    barney
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    19 days ago

    Audio Steganography was the first one - although not sure it's still available for me, so the first that's still available would be the MongoDB SQLi

  • TillyCorless's avatar
    TillyCorless
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    28 days ago

    Nice question Bluesman 

    I have to echo Kieran's sentiment on my ability (I hope to be at level 9 some day!) but it's great to learn about your breakthrough to the most challenging labs! Would love to her from others, too.

  • KieranRowley's avatar
    KieranRowley
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    28 days ago

    I'm afraid that I am not qualified to commebt on this topic but I would love to hear everybody else's answers!