Mission 001
🪪 SHADOWNET ACADEMY – MISSION 001
🦎 Unit 202: The Network Geckos
🟣 Shadow Recruit Level
🖥️ Mission 001: The Forgotten Terminal
🧠 Briefing
ShadowNet’s internal sensors have detected a power surge and network activity from a long-decommissioned terminal inside Echo-Sector—a hidden, classified subnet last used during the Blackout-Protocol Incident
The system is known only as:
node17.echo.local
There has been no authorised access to this machine in many years. And yet... it’s now online.
Your mission as a Shadow Recruit is to:
- Locate the terminal on the Echo-Sector network.
- Identify the service that’s allowing remote access.
- Break into the system using discovered or known credentials.
📡 Mission Intel
This machine:
- Exists on your network.
- Has no hostname in DNS—you will be given its IP directly.
- Appears to be running a service on a known port.
Our training records suggest the system may still respond to old ShadowNet credentials. If so, the Obsidian Circuit may have already exploited this weakness…
📋 Your Objectives
- ✅ Scan the target system’s IP to identify open ports and determine the service available
- ✅ Use an exposed service to attempt access to the terminal of NODE17
- ✅ If successful, find and report back the codeword being used by the mysterious user obs-c1rCu1t
🪖 Your task: Record the codeword. That’s your flag.
🧰 Operational Support
You may access the following resource:
🔒 Note from HQ
This system is legacy. That means it is old with weak security. But be warned: whoever reactivated this terminal is likely to be watching...