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Red Miners

In the race for Vitalium on Mars, the villainous Board of Arodor resorted to desperate measures, needing funds for their mining attempts. They devised a botnet specifically crafted to mine cryptocurrency covertly. We stumbled upon a sample of Arodor's miner's installer on our server. Recognizing the gravity of the situation, we launched a thorough investigation. With you as its leader, you need to unravel the inner workings of the installation mechanism. The discovery served as a turning point, revealing the extent of Arodor's desperation. However, the battle for Vitalium continued, urging us to remain vigilant and adapt our cyber defences to counter future threats.

About the Challenge

We were given a bash file (You can download the file (here)[forensics_red_miners.zip]). Here is the preview of the bash script:

How to Solve?

The flag was split into several parts. So I found some interesting such as base64 msg

I gather all the base64 msg and then I decode it using CyberChef

HTB{m1n1ng_th31r_w4y_t0_m4rs}