This was the challenge which scored us the last couple of points and put us on the second place. We thought a write up would be nice. This challenge gave us some headache, and if you see the final solution it looks so easy, but it was a long way to get there.
The server involved was the 192.168.0.5. After a nmap scan we noticed the server was listening on port 21/tcp, or ftp. The service info also gives us the first clue of the challenge, it was a port knocking exercise.
This is how we solved it.
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