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HackTheBox Writeup: Cache

Cache was a medium rated Linux box where enumerating a website found some hard-coded creds and a vhost that contained an Electronic Medical Records application. This EMR app had some SQL injection vulnerabilities that allowed a password hash to be dumped and cracked, gaining access to the EMR app. A

HackTheBox Writeup: Admirer

Admirer was an easy rated Linux machine that had a lot more steps than I expected, given the rating. A robots.txt file hinted at the presence of credentials which were found with forced browsing. One of these creds worked on the FTP service, allowing us to download a backup

HackTheBox Writeup: Quick

Quick was a hard rated Linux box and man, did it earn that rating. A website was accessed via the QUIC protocol and a password was retrieved. A list of potential usernames was compiled from the 'normal' website and used to spray the password and get past a login page.

HackTheBox Writeup: Magic

Magic was a medium rated Linux box that required you to find a hidden upload function then bypass its upload restrictions to execute code and catch a shell as www-data. From here, creds for mysql were stored in plaintext, allowing you to dump the database and get more creds for

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

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