Holiday Hack 2019: Find the Turtle Doves

• Holiday Hack 2019 Home
• 1) Find the Turtle Doves
• 2) Unredact Threatening Document
• 3) Evaluate Attack Outcome
• 4) Determine Attacker Technique
• 5) Determine Compromised System
• 6) Splunk
• 7) Get Access To The Steam Tunnels
• 8) Bypassing the Frido Sleigh CAPTEHA
• 9) Retrieve Scraps of Paper from Server
• 10) Recover Cleartext Document
• 11) Open the Sleigh Shop Door
• 12) Filter Out Poisoned Sources of Weather Data
• Appendix A: Hide Others
• Appendix B: Open Locks
• Appendix C: Easter Eggs

Objective

Santa asked me to find the missing turtle doves. In exploring Elf U, I eventually make it to the Student Union, off the top of the quad. In there, I find all sorts of things, like the Swag Booth, booths from the sponsors like Google, Splunk, and of course SANS. Right by the fireplace, there are the doves:

I can talk to them and they say:

Hoot Hooot?

And it completes the challenge.

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