PW Crack 4
Can you crack the password to get the flag? Download the password checker here and you'll need the encrypted flag and the hash in the same directory too. There are 100 potential passwords with only 1 being correct. You can find these by examining the password checker script.
Download all the files.
Then grant execute permission with chmod +x level4.py.
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import hashlib
### THIS FUNCTION WILL NOT HELP YOU FIND THE FLAG --LT ########################
def str_xor(secret, key):
#extend key to secret length
new_key = key
i = 0
while len(new_key) < len(secret):
new_key = new_key + key[i]
i = (i + 1) % len(key)
return "".join([chr(ord(secret_c) ^ ord(new_key_c)) for (secret_c,new_key_c) in zip(secret,new_key)])
###############################################################################
flag_enc = open('level4.flag.txt.enc', 'rb').read()
correct_pw_hash = open('level4.hash.bin', 'rb').read()
def hash_pw(pw_str):
pw_bytes = bytearray()
pw_bytes.extend(pw_str.encode())
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(pw_bytes)
return m.digest()
def level_4_pw_check():
user_pw = input("Please enter correct password for flag: ")
user_pw_hash = hash_pw(user_pw)
if( user_pw_hash == correct_pw_hash ):
print("Welcome back... your flag, user:")
decryption = str_xor(flag_enc.decode(), user_pw)
print(decryption)
return
print("That password is incorrect")
level_4_pw_check()
# The strings below are 100 possibilities for the correct password.
# (Only 1 is correct)
pos_pw_list = ["158f", "1655", "d21e", "4966", "ed69", "1010", "dded", "844c", "40ab", "a948", "156c", "ab7f", "4a5f", "e38c", "ba12", "f7fd", "d780", "4f4d", "5ba1", "96c5", "55b9", "8a67", "d32b", "aa7a", "514b", "e4e1", "1230", "cd19", "d6dd", "b01f", "fd2f", "7587", "86c2", "d7b8", "55a2", "b77c", "7ffe", "4420", "e0ee", "d8fb", "d748", "b0fe", "2a37", "a638", "52db", "51b7", "5526", "40ed", "5356", "6ad4", "2ddd", "177d", "84ae", "cf88", "97a3", "17ad", "7124", "eff2", "e373", "c974", "7689", "b8b2", "e899", "d042", "47d9", "cca9", "ab2a", "de77", "4654", "9ecb", "ab6e", "bb8e", "b76b", "d661", "63f8", "7095", "567e", "b837", "2b80", "ad4f", "c514", "ffa4", "fc37", "7254", "b48b", "d38b", "a02b", "ec6c", "eacc", "8b70", "b03e", "1b36", "81ff", "77e4", "dbe6", "59d9", "fd6a", "5653", "8b95", "d0e5"]
This challenge was similar to PW Crack 3, but it had 100 possible passwords.
Use the same approach, with a script to find the correct password.
First, use bvi to inspect level4.hash.bin. The MD5 hash is d3d58c4786a6a229427351500ac7abd7.
Hash each candidate password and compare it with this value.
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import hashlib
correct_pw = "d3d58c4786a6a229427351500ac7abd7"
pos_pw_list = ["158f", "1655", "d21e", "4966", "ed69", "1010", "dded", "844c", "40ab", "a948", "156c", "ab7f", "4a5f", "e38c", "ba12", "f7fd", "d780", "4f4d", "5ba1", "96c5", "55b9", "8a67", "d32b", "aa7a", "514b", "e4e1", "1230", "cd19", "d6dd", "b01f", "fd2f", "7587", "86c2", "d7b8", "55a2", "b77c", "7ffe", "4420", "e0ee", "d8fb", "d748", "b0fe", "2a37", "a638", "52db", "51b7", "5526", "40ed", "5356", "6ad4", "2ddd", "177d", "84ae", "cf88", "97a3", "17ad", "7124", "eff2", "e373", "c974", "7689", "b8b2", "e899", "d042", "47d9", "cca9", "ab2a", "de77", "4654", "9ecb", "ab6e", "bb8e", "b76b", "d661", "63f8", "7095", "567e", "b837", "2b80", "ad4f", "c514", "ffa4", "fc37", "7254", "b48b", "d38b", "a02b", "ec6c", "eacc", "8b70", "b03e", "1b36", "81ff", "77e4", "dbe6", "59d9", "fd6a", "5653", "8b95", "d0e5"]
def check_correct_pw(pos_pw_list):
for item in pos_pw_list:
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(item.encode())
if m.hexdigest() == correct_pw:
print("The correct password is: " + item)
check_correct_pw(pos_pw_list)
Use this script to loop through the candidates and find the correct password.
Then run level4.py to get the flag!
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