HackTheBox – Timelapse Write-up

Hi everyone! This is a Windows machine that only test Active Directory related content during privilege escalation. For initial access, we have to enumerate SMB for a password protected ZIP file which stores a password protected PFX file. Cracking using zip2john and crackpkcs12 was done before generating a public and private key using the PFX […]

HackTheBox – Paper Write-up

Hi everyone! Today’s write-up is on Paper, an easy Linux machine from HackTheBox. This machine requires us to enumerate the HTTP response header to discover the domain name, enumerate the version of WordPress for a vulnerability, and a specific comment in a post before having the knowledge to exploit the vulnerability to read secret content […]

HackTheBox – Late

Hi everyone! This is a Linux machine challenge that was created on 24 April 2022. This machine requires us to utilize Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Python for SSTI which gives us initial access. For privilege escalation, we are required to enumerate files in the victim machine owned by the user and modify a script […]

HackTheBox – Backdoor Write-up

Hi everyone! This write-up is on Backdoor, an easy Linux machine. I wouldn’t say this machine is actually easy. This machine requires us to manually enumerate WordPress’s plugin directory, and exploit the directory traversal vulnerability to leak process. Exploit the gdbserver process to obtain a reverse shell before attaching to the root’s screen session for […]