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# Break In 2016 - Find The Idiot
**Category:** Forensics
**Points:** 100
**Solves:** 90
**Description:**
> Your friend Bob, is an expert penetration tester.
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> He loves solving and creating puzzles.
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> He is invited by Pied Diaper Inc. for some testing.
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> You join him for this technical expedition. At the site, you watch
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> him work for a few minutes, when he exclaims, "What an idiot!". Then,
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> he looks at you with a with a playful gaze.
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> Then, handing out a flash drive to you he says, "Find the idiotic user".
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> Link: [Here](find-the-idiot.zip)
## Write-up
by [ParthKolekar](https://github.com/ParthKolekar)
This is a straight forward question. You are given a zip file containing the
entire filesystem dumps for the users. You have to run a dictionary attack on the
shadow file.
The attack reveals that user `gohan` has password `dragon1`.
The flag is `dragon1`.
## Other write-ups and resources
* <https://github.com/objEEdump/breakin/tree/master/find_the_idiot>
