In the Sleigh Workshop I found The Tooth Fairy, Wunorse Openslae and Krampus to talk to. There was also a door to the Bell Tower that was locked.

This is what the Tooth Fairy had to say for herself:

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I’m the Tooth Fairy, the mastermind behind the plot to destroy the holiday season.

I hate how Santa is so beloved, but only works one day per year!

He has all of the resources of the North Pole and the elves to help him too.

I run a solo operation, toiling year-round collecting deciduous bicuspids and more from children.

But I get nowhere near the gratitude that Santa gets. He needs to share his holiday resources with the rest of us!

But, although you found me, you haven’t foiled my plot!

Santa’s sleigh will NOT be able to find its way.

I will get my revenge and respect!

I want my own holiday, National Tooth Fairy Day, to be the most popular holiday on the calendar!!!

Wunorse had a challenge:

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Wunorse Openslae here, just looking at some Zeek logs.

I'm pretty sure one of these connections is a malicious C2 channel…

Do you think you could take a look?

I hear a lot of C2 channels have very long connection times.

Please use jq to find the longest connection in this data set.

We have to kick out any and all grinchy activity!

Terminal Challenge Zeek JSON Analysis

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That's got to be the one - thanks!

Hey, you know what? We've got a crisis here.

You see, Santa's flight route is planned by a complex set of machine learning algorithms which use available weather data.

All the weather stations are reporting severe weather to Santa's Sleigh. I think someone might be forging intentionally false weather data!

I'm so flummoxed I can't even remember how to login!

Hmm… Maybe the Zeek http.log could help us.

I worry about LFI, XSS, and SQLi in the Zeek log - oh my!

And I'd be shocked if there weren't some shell stuff in there too.

I'll bet if you pick through, you can find some naughty data from naughty hosts and block it in the firewall.

If you find a log entry that definitely looks bad, try pivoting off other unusual attributes in that entry to find more bad IPs.

The sleigh's machine learning device (SRF) needs most of the malicious IPs blocked in order to calculate a good route.

Try not to block many legitimate weather station IPs as that could also cause route calculation failure.

Remember, when looking at JSON data, jq is the tool for you!

Krampus hoped that I would still be able to save the holiday season.

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But there’s still time! Solve the final challenge in your badge by blocking the bad IPs at srf.elfu.org and save the holiday season!

From here I moved back to The Quad and hoped to get into the Dormitory.