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# HireMe CyberDefenders

Karen is a security professional looking for a new job. A company called "TAAUSAI"  offered her a position and asked her to complete a couple of tasks to prove her technical competency.

Analyze the provided disk image and answer the questions based on your understanding of the cases she was assigned to investigate.

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**Link  :** [**https://cyberdefenders.org/blueteam-ctf-challenges/62**](https://cyberdefenders.org/blueteam-ctf-challenges/62)

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1\. What is the administrator's username?
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The fastest way is to list the Users directory of the Second Partition

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you can also check **Registry hives which are located under "\Windows\System32\config"**&#x20;

**and Check the "SAM\Domains\Account\Users"**

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**Ans : Karen**

### 2. What is the OS's build number?

Registry hives are located under "\Windows\System32\config"

Export Software hive&#x20;

Then Check "Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" .

click export files

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Then import it at registry editor

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Check "Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"&#x20;

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**Ans : 16299**

## 3. What is the hostname of the computer?

we have to export the **System** registry from FTK Imager & upload it in the Registry editor just like the Software registry\ <br>

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**then  Check "ControlSet001\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName"**

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**Ans : TOTALLYNOTAHACK**

### 4. A messaging application was used to communicate with a fellow Alpaca enthusiest. What is the name of the software?

in FTK Imager we find out that the messaging application

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another way to find it we can **Analyze SOFTWARE registry by loading it in registory editor .**

لإhen Check keys listed under the "Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths" which stores informations about all the installed applications.

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**Ans : skype**

### 5. What is the zip code of the administrator's post?

To get this informations we have to check the file which stores Browser data and history .&#x20;

The location of this file is “**\[root]\Users\Karen\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data**”.

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**Ans : 19709**

### 6. What are the initials of the person who contacted the admin user from TAAUSAI?

**To get it we can Check outlook artifacts.**&#x20;

**in  "\[root]\Users\Karen\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\\<klovespizza@outlook.com.ost>"**&#x20;

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**Export & and open it in Ost veiwer**

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Micheal Scotch

**Ans : MS**

### 7. How much money was TAAUSAI willing to pay upfront?

check more mails

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**Ans : 150000**

### 8. What country is the admin user meeting the hacker group in?

After check more mails&#x20;

I found that&#x20;

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The location is “**27**°**22**'**50.10**″**N**, **33**°**37**'**54.62**″**E** ”

I searched for it

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**Ans : Egypt**

### 9. What is the machine's timezone? (Use the three-letter abbreviation)

We can check System hive again in registry editor

which store in store in the "**ControlSet001\Control\TimeZoneInfor**

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**Ans : UTC**

### 10. When was AlpacaCare.docx last accessed?

go to the docx file in FTK Imager then  From **File access properties**&#x20;

**Check the accessed date**&#x20;

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**Ans : 03/17/2019 09:52 PM**

### 11. There was a second partition on the drive. What is the letter assigned to it?

we find out that the second partition of the drive is store in the “**SYSTEM\MountedDevices”** registry.

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**Ans : A**<br>

### 12. What is the answer to the question Company's manager asked Karen?

we can back to mails list

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by investigate the mails i found it&#x20;

**Ans : TheCardCriesNoMore**

### 13. What is the job position offered to Karen? (3 words, 2 spaces in between)

check the next mail<br>

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**Ans : cyber security analyst**

### 14. When was the admin user password last changed?

&#x20;That's stored in the SAM registry

&#x20;so we have to analyze the “**SAM**” registry. that

by saved it ,&#x20;

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and export the SAM registry file in regripper

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**Ans : 03/21/2019 19:13:09**

### 15. What version of Chrome is installed on the machine?

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here we use Software hive&#x20;

&#x20;infoormations about last google chrome version is stored in "**SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome"**.

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**Ans** : **72.0.3626.121**

### &#x20;16 : What is the HostUrl of Skype?

location which store download URL is “**History**”. So, we extract History from the FTK imager&#x20;

Location of History is: "\[root]\Users\Karen\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History"

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Then open it using SQLite3.<br>

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**Ans :** [**https://download.skype.com/s4l/download/win/Skype-8.41.0.54.exe**](https://download.skype.com/s4l/download/win/Skype-8.41.0.54.exe)

### 17. What is the domain name of the website Karen browsed on Alpaca care that the file AlpacaCare.docx is based on?

&#x20;we can export the AlpacaCare.docx file  then analyze it.

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Then We can view the file with Libreoffice

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The hyperlink used in website is  "palominoalapacafarm.com".

**Ans: palominoalpacafarm.com**

Thaaaaaannnnnkkkk UUUUUUU for reading 🥰

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