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This is the step by step walkthrough of the Academy Machine on Hack the box . According to Machine Difficulty Rating, it is chategorized at medium difficulty by most fellow haxors

This challenge provides the encrypted ciphertext and public key with a weak factor . The goal is to get the flag in the message .

The zip file is unlocked by the password hackthebox, as ridiculous as it is .
anyways we move on and inside of the folder we get a Scroll.png of type Scroll.png: PNG image data, 580 x 78, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced .

You heard it . Frank Vitalik is a huxlr. Have to figure out where the money flows .

Since we have the dudes name we will try googling it .

this challenge flew too close to the sun . the fake id’s twitter account was suspended . so we found a reddit page for this guy .

Reconnaisance

nmap result -

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[*] Nmap: 21/tcp   open  ftp         vsftpd 2.3.4
[*] Nmap: 22/tcp   open  ssh         OpenSSH 4.7p1 Debian 8ubuntu1 (protocol 2.0)
[*] Nmap: 139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X - 4.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
[*] Nmap: 445/tcp  open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X - 4.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
[*] Nmap: 3632/tcp open  distccd     distccd v1 ((GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4))
[*] Nmap: Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Reconnaisance

nmap result:-

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[*] Nmap: Not shown: 65534 filtered ports                                                                                                                                                    
[*] Nmap: PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION                                                                                                                                                     
[*] Nmap: 8080/tcp open  http    Apache Tomcat/Coyote JSP engine 1.1

Have to find last location of the person in question . Have there email address .