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HackTheBox Writeup: Scavenger

Scavenger was a hard rated box which was very frustrating at times due to a crazy amount of rabbitholes. In the end though, I think it was a pretty realistic box that tested enumeration skills as well as methodology. A SQL injection vulnerability in whois uncovered some hidden domains. Enumeration

HackTheBox Writeup: Zetta

Zetta was a hard rated box that had some interesting vulnerabilities. An unfinished dual-stack implementation was used to leak the IPv6 address of the server which exposed a rsync service. Write access to rsync was used to write to an authorized_keys file giving a SSH shell. A Postgres SQL

HackTheBox Writeup: RE

RE was a hard rated box that was pretty challenging with many steps. The initial foothold involved crafting a malicious OpenOffice document. The first part of privilege escalation required using a zipslip vulnerability to take advantage of a script processing rar files. The second part exploited a service with weak

HackTheBox Writeup: Player

Player was a hard rated machine and is probably my favorite machine thus far. This box was all about enumeration. Other than one thing that was a bit of a reach and kinda CTF-y, it was a very realistic scenario. JWT tokens, an ffmpeg exploit that made me feel like

HackTheBox Writeup: Jarvis

Jarvis was a medium rated box that involved SQL injection for the initial foothold followed by bash manipulation and service abuse to gain root. Nmap scan: I checked out 64999 first: There didn't appear to be anything else there so checked port 80 and found a site for 'Stark Hotel'

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