Challenge Overview

"Synixon Technologies recently launched their new ChatOps collaboration platform to streamline internal communications across development and operations teams. Within days of deployment, the SOC team began noticing anomalies:

- Password resets being triggered without user approval
- Unexplained creation of new accounts
- Repeated suspicious API calls hitting the backend services.

The anomalies were escalated, and after deeper analysis by the Incident Response team, it was officially confirmed that the company was under an active cyber attack. To uncover the scope and entry point of the intrusion, you have been brought in as a forensic investigator specializing in network forensics. Your task is to analyze the provided packet capture file synixon_breach_capture.pcapng and piece together the attacker's activities, methods, and potential impact on the ChatOps platform.

Your task is to investigate the captured network traffic from the confirmed ChatOps platform incident and uncover how the attacker exploited platform vulnerabilities to gain unrestricted access to the main server."

What You Will Learn

  • Analyzing packet captures using Wireshark to reconstruct the attacker’s activity.
  • Examining TCP streams and WebSocket traffic to understand application interactions.
  • Identifying steps such as account registration, password reset abuse, and privilege escalation from captured traffic.
  • Recognizing attacks involving Local File Inclusion (LFI) and Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI).
  • Correlating evidence to determine the attacker’s methods, impact, and how full system compromise was achieved.

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