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🎯 Mission 004: Who has the Power?

Unit 101 – Terminal Tigers 🐯 | Rank: Shadow Recruit

ShadowNet Agency: Mission 004

🔒 Classification: Restricted

🐾 Operative Level: Shadow Recruit

📁 Mission Briefing

ShadowNet has detected irregular activity on the internal comms grid. An unauthorised signal is set to be transmitted from within the agency, containing sensitive operational data. The time of this transmission is the flag you must uncover.

We don’t know who’s behind it. We don’t know where the message is hidden. But we believe it’s coming from a user with elevated system powers.

This is no ordinary file drop, Recruit. The message has been obscured — hidden somewhere deep and protected. We believe it is encoded and concealed to avoid detection.

You must infiltrate the system and uncover:

  • Who has the power?
  • What secrets are they hiding?
  • When will the signal be sent?

🎯 Objectives

  1. Investigate the system to determine which users have elevated privileges.
  2. Explore the file system carefully. Use your wits and tools.
  3. Seek out any signs of hidden or suspicious files.
  4. We believe the file you are looking for contains the word compromised in its name.
  5. Decode any suspicious file or message you discover.

🕸️ ShadowNet Intel Drop

  • The key to finding the file lies in identifying who has the power on the system.
  • The contents of the hidden file reveal the time of the planned signal. This is your flag.
  • Recruits are permitted to use elevated access under controlled sudo operations.

🏁 Mission Success Criteria

To successfully complete this mission, you must report:

  • ✅ A list of all users on the system who appear to hold elevated privileges.
  • ✅ The decoded time the rogue signal is scheduled to be sent.

ShadowNet is counting on you to expose the truth from the shadows.