HTH 2020 CTF: Cloud: OhSnap! (150)

This is from the Hackers Teaching Hackers HTH2020 CTF.

For this challenge, we are provided with this text:

I’m pretty sure that I backed up our hth instance properly. Can you take a look at the AWS EBS snapshots and check?

and this hint:

You will need an AWS account for this challenge. You can make one for free here: https://aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/

I already had an account, so I logged into it and went to the EBS dashboard…

I then went to “snapshots” in the left navigation pane…

I then changed the search dropdown to “Public Snapshots” and did a seach for “hth”…

This yielded only on result. Look at that! the description field contained the flag…

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