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: Researchers use tools like Wireshark to comb through the network capture, looking for suspicious communication patterns, non-standard port usage, or encrypted tunnels.

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: The challenge involves finding and extracting malicious artifacts—often garbled shellcode or binaries—from the network stream. Shellcode Emulation & Analysis : : Researchers use tools like Wireshark to comb

: Identify where the attacker gained access and what files were dropped. Tasks : looking for suspicious communication patterns

If you didn't think to check sudo -l immediately upon gaining a shell, or if you assumed pip privilege escalation required internet connectivity (it doesn't), you failed.