Methodology, Tricks & Common sense

Checklist for myself (mainly)

• Assume that the easiest path is the best (Occam's razor)

• Enumerate every new finding and connect to previously obtained information

Terminal tricks

Shell upgrade to tty

username@host:~# script /dev/null -c bash

# Press Ctrl+Z
username@host:~# ^Z

# Type: stty raw -echo; fg
localname@localmachine$ stty raw -echo; fg

# Type: reset
reset
reset: unknown terminal type unknown

# Type: screen
Terminal type? screen
                                                                         
username@host:~# 

Common sense

Sub-folder or file exposed in non-accessible directory

If access is denied to a folder but there's a resource known to be beyond it / inside it, one can try to access the resource. Either by changing directories or outputting a file.

Restoring corrupted docx files

1. Copy docx into a zip: cp 1.docx 1.zip

2. Extract non corrupt data to another zip: zip -FF 1.zip 2.zip

3. Copy new zip to new docx: cp 2.zip 2.docx

Sources

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/388444/how-can-i-extract-the-data-from-a-corrupted-docx-file
• https://superuser.com/questions/23290/terminal-tool-linux-for-repair-corrupted-zip-files

PE Binaries

x86 or x64

Use hexdump <binary> -C to see the first few bytes of the binary.

ARHCITECTURE:   x86
50 45 00 00 4c 01 04 00  |........PE..L...|

ARHCITECTURE:   x64
50 45 00 00 64 86 03 00  |........PE..d...|

• https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/pebitnesstrick