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Unencrypted EBS disks

cloud-services-amazon-ec2 | Level: Easy  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab

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EC2 instances can prove to be a gold mine of information, there could be database credentials, access keys, private key files, etc. 

An attacker once inside an AWS account, might not have SSH keys and required permission to access the instance. However, in such cases, the EBS disk can be leveraged to retrieve sensitive information.

Objective: Interact with the EBS disk of the running instance and retrieve the flag. 

Instructions:

  • Click on RUN to start the lab (takes approximately 25s).

  • Click on LAB LINK to view the Access Key Id and Secret Key of an IAM user.

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