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Bebop Tryhackme Writeup

Vijay Kumar Gupta
4 min readAug 25, 2024

Room link: https://tryhackme.com/room/bebop

Note: This room is for Premium Members Only. who purchased THM premium membership.

Bebop is a quick box that exemplifies exactly how insecure some drone operating systems are. This box shouldn’t take very long to root — it’s really not particularly challenging (which is slightly worrying given it’s based off real drone software). Of much more interest is the overarching concept: drone hacking. If you haven’t already watched the video embedded into the THM room, I would highly recommend it; it’s really interesting (and hilarious in places). I’ll include an embed of the video below, before properly beginning the write-up:

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Question 1. What is your codename?

Answer: pilot

Enumeration:

As per normal, the first thing we’re going to do with this box is run an nmap scan. A basic service scan is more than enough for our purposes:

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Vijay Kumar Gupta
Vijay Kumar Gupta

Written by Vijay Kumar Gupta

Vijay Gupta is an inspiring public speaker and social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to bringing about positive change and empowering communities.

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