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  • HTB Writeup - DEVEL

    Devel was another pretty easy box, involving a misconfigured FTP server and a famous Windows kernel exploit. Let’s get started with an nmap scan: root@kali:~# nmap -sV 10.10.10.5 Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.5 Host is up (0.053s latency). Not shown: 998 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 21/tcp open ftp...

  • HTB Writeup - BASTION

    Bastion was an interesting box - all the information needed to compromise the system was pretty much ‘right there’, with very little real exploitation required other than looking hard and taking what was given. Starting as usual with an nmap scan: root@kali:~# nmap -sV 10.10.10.134 Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org...

  • HTB Writeups - LAME, LEGACY, BLUE

    A 3-for-1! These three machines were too short or easy to really warrant a full writeup by themselves, so I’ve compounded them into this post. Let’s get started! LAME The most obvious way to complete this box seems to be with an SMB exploit, but I initially went a different...

  • HTB Writeup - JERRY

    This is the first of a series of writeups detailing my progress through the machines on HackTheBox. The site is available to anyone that can solve the puzzle for the invite code, and has a great variety of boxes for people of any skill level to practice pentesting - as...