Groot 0 -> 5

Groot 0 -> 1

Grab creds from the slack and login via SSH:

ssh [e-mail]

Password: groot1

Groot 1 -> 2

The password for groot2 is the last five alphanumeric characters of the MD5 hash of this system’s hosts file.

Get-FileHash C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -Algorithm MD5

Password: 464c3

Groot 2 -> 3

The password for groot3 is the word that is made up from the letters in the range of 1,481,110 to 1,481,117 within the file on the desktop.

$word = (Get-Content .\elements.txt);$list = ""; 1481110..1481117 | ForEach-Object {$list += $word[$PSItem]} ; $list

Password: hiding

https://overpoweredshell.com/Exploring-PowerShell-6-Character-Ranges/

Need a more efficient method, if exists

Groot 3 -> 4

The password for groot4 is the number of times the word “beetle” is listed in the file on the desktop.

(Get-Content .\words.txt) -split ' '| ?{$_ -like 'beetle'} | Measure-Object

Password: 5

Same as Century 14 -> 15

Groot 4 -> 5

The password for groot5 is the name of the Drax subkey within the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) registry hive.

Get-ChildItem HKCU:\ -Recurse | Select-String Drax
Get-ChildItem  -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Assistance\Drax"

Password: destroyer