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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.

PlatformTryHackMe
Operating systemLinux
DifficultyMedium
Time to user12m
Time to root30m
User owned2026-08-15
Root owned2026-08-15
Relevant forOSCP

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.