Machine Synopsis

Napper is a hard difficulty Windows machine which hosts a static blog website that is backdoored with the NAPLISTENER malware, which can be exploited to gain a foothold on the machine. Privilege escalation involves reversing a Golang binary and decrypting the password for a privileged user by utilizing the seed value and password hash stored in an Elasticsearch database. Being a member of the `administrators` group, the user can obtain a system token and escalate to the `Administrator` user.