Mr Robot CTF writeup and attack path
Mr Robot CTF is a medium Linux machine on TryHackMe that I solved myself. This page is my short attack path summary and the techniques it trains.
| Platform | TryHackMe |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Linux |
| Difficulty | Medium |
| Time to user | 12m |
| Time to root | 30m |
| User owned | 2026-08-15 |
| Root owned | 2026-08-15 |
| Relevant for | OSCP |
Attack path summary
Find robots.txt key 1 and fsocity.dic. Brute force wp-login for user elliot, upload reverse shell plugin, escalate via nmap --interactive.
Techniques
WordPress Wp-login Dictionary-Attack Nmap-SUID
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Mr Robot CTF belongs to TryHackMe. This page contains only my own notes.