picoCTF 2022 Write-up (Web Exploitation)

Hi everyone! This post is on picoCTF 2022 write-up for web exploitation that was held from 16th March 2022 to 30th Mar 2022. It covers the basics of analyzing the client source codes, path traversal, robots.txt, modifying cookies, directory fuzzing, and SQL injection. Let’s get started! 1. Includes Below shows the main page of the […]

HackTheBox – Pandora Write-up

Hi everyone! Today’s write-up is on Pandora, an easy GNU/Linux machine released on 10th January 2022. I won’t say the machine is easy if you are those who build the SQL injection exploit from scratch. Someone actually build the PoC exploit for an old CVE recently for this HackTheBox challenge so I leached on it. […]

SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2021

Hi everyone! This is a write-up on the recent SANS Holiday Hack Challenge CTF. I hope they will be helpful to you. It is my first time trying out SANS Holiday Hack challenge as they host it yearly. If you haven’t tried it out, the main goal of this CTF is to learn. Hence there […]

HackTheBox – Love Write-up

Hi everyone! Today’s post is on Love, an easy Windows 10 machine on HackTheBox. It was created on 2nd May 2021. There are two ways for the initial foothold before accessing the server as a user account which is SQL injection via CVE-liked disclosure on exploitDB for Voting System 1.0 or SSRF in a subdomain […]

HackTheBox – Writeup Write-up

Hi everyone! Today’s post is on Writeup, an easy HackTheBox GNU/Linux machine. It was released on 9th June 2019. To access the server to get the user flag is fairly simple but to escalate privileges is quite hard for me to find clues until HackTheBox’s discussion forum helped me with some clues. This machine is […]