Overview
An OVA virtual machine appliance is provided. We need to extract the underlying disk image and search for host resolution clues.
Reconnaissance
Extract challenge.ova using tar to obtain challengeeeww-disk001.vmdk.
Exploitation Strategy
Extract etc/hosts from VMDK using 7z. The file contains #flag ----> y0u_g0t_1t_c0rr3ct.
Solution Code
tar -xf challenge.ova
7z e challengeeeww-disk001.vmdk etc/hosts
cat hosts
# Flag: hwj{y0u_g0t_1t_c0rr3ct}Flag
hwj{y0u_g0t_1t_c0rr3ct}