Phantom Track
Level 8 → Level 9
Live Injection
ACT I500 pts+50 first-blood bonus
★ This level now runs on an isolated ephemeral box
L8 moved to a per-session phantom-deep ephemeral on 2026-07-12 so it can honestly deliver the mission — the target daemon runs as ROOT and you ptrace it as an unprivileged user, safe because the box is a throwaway. Connect with: ssh [email protected] -p 2260 (use your L7 flag as the password). Same challenge, same flag, same fingerprint, same points. This is still a required chain hop — read the L8 flag, then continue with phantom10 exactly as before.
Mission
Inject code into a running root process via ptrace.
Why this matters in 2026
Live process injection is the foundation of every memory-resident implant.
Mitigation era: 2026-04 · rotation policy: levels may be refreshed as CVEs are patched out of distro defaults.
Connection Terminal
Use the password forphantom8 that you captured on the previous level, then:ssh [email protected] -p 2223SSH command copied to clipboard!
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