Monstrosity

Platform: HackTheBox | Category: OSINT | Difficulty: N/A | Author: D3v0o0Nu11 | Date: 2026-02-10

Description

The following social media account is associated with a widespread banking trojan that is silently infecting an increasing number of victims the past few days. There is intense interaction with the aforementioned account right before the self-decryption function of the malicious executable. Investigators around the world are trying to reverse engineer this specific part of the malware with no success so far. Search the account for potential clues that could prove useful.

https://twitter.com/miounster

Solution Approach

Core idea: Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.

Steps

1. First, open the twitter's link given.

Flag

(no flag captured)

Lessons Learned

1. Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first.
2. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.
3. Reuse the same pattern in future engagements.