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HackTheBox Writeup: Traceback

Traceback was an easy rated Linux machine that required finding a webshell on an already pwned website, using it to upload a php reverse shell, then catching a shell as webadmin. From there, webadmin had access to running luvit as sysadmin so a simple Lua script was used to catch

HackTheBox Writeup: Cascade

Cascade was a medium rated Windows machine where a legacy password found in LDAP enabled access to SMB shares. In those shares were various files, one of which was a registry file containing a password for VNC which was decrypted and used to gain a shell. This password also allowed

HackTheBox Writeup: Sauna

Sauna was an easy rated Windows box with a focus on Active Directory. A list of users was generated from a website and AS-REP roasting was used to obtain a password hash. This hash was cracked and a shell gained with WinRM as the user 'fsmith'. A plain text password

HackTheBox Writeup: Book

Book was a very interesting medium rated Linux machine that introduced me to some new techniques. SQL Truncation was used to takeover the admin account in a web application. XSS was then used to read local files, including a SSH private key which yielded a stable shell. Finally a vulnerable

HackTheBox Writeup: ForwardSlash

ForwardSlash was a hard rated Linux box where a LFI vulnerability on a file upload function found on a vhost was exploited with PHP wrappers to find creds that worked for SSH. A backup utility was found that required a bash one-liner to read a backup file containing creds for

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