Leviathan Walkthrough
The Leviathan is a series of challenges for testing your ability to solve basic security-related problems. You have to gain access to different levels of a system by finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Only a simple overview of programming, networking, and security concepts is needed to navigate its levels.
Intro and Level 0
This game is much shorter than The
Bandit. As such, tis write up is only a
couple of pages. The second level is perhapss, by a large margin, the most
challenging and rewarding. Most of the puzzles can be solved by becoming
familiar with the programs strace and ltrace.
I also took a different approach for these notes and also keeping record of all the actions that led me nowhere.
Strong man reading is a must. While playing this game I stumbled upon this
article: RTFM!. It ceirtainly
helped me level up my understanding of the UNIX documentation layout…
Level 00 write-up
This is a very simple level that only relies on the user’s ability with basic
commands. Having already completed at least some of the Bandit or used a UNIX
system for enough time to know what a hidden file/folder is, and how to use
grep is enough to solve it.
You basically need to scavenge the home folder for the password string.
