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Bounty Hacker writeup and attack path

Bounty Hacker is a easy Linux machine on TryHackMe that I solved myself. This page is my short attack path summary and the techniques it trains.

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PlatformTryHackMe
Operating systemLinux
DifficultyEasy
Time to user18m
Time to root45m
User owned2026-08-15
Root owned2026-08-15

Attack path summary

Anonymous FTP reveals task.txt and locks.txt. Brute force SSH user lin with hydra, then abuse tar sudo privileges.

Techniques

FTP-Anonymous Hydra Tar-SUID

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