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CTF Writeups

HackTheBox and lab walkthroughs with practical exploitation steps.

Focused writeups from boxes and labs I solved, including enumeration flow, exploit path, and privilege escalation notes.

Sunday

·135 words·1 min

pwned box sunday, learnt to do username enumeration for finger service nd crack hash with john.

Blocky

·239 words·2 mins

set up JD GUI for decompiling java code , checked the .class object got credentials nd then got access with sudo -l , priv esc was easy it was just sudo -l followed with sudo su.

Solidstate

·754 words·4 mins

accessed james server , got ssh login details , logged in as mindy on ssh, escaped rbash shell by using a james server exploit which gave us a bash shell , enumerated using linpeas , further enumerated with …

Sense

·379 words·2 mins

Started box sense , used a vulnerability on the pfsense router to allow code injection with burpsuite, got a stable reverse shell with a python script and got the flags and learnt how to workaround bad …

Optimum

·481 words·3 mins

pwned the box with a exploit , used simple http server mainly to host the files for download and done w metasploit.

Devel

·206 words·1 min

Uploaded reverse shell.aspx on ftp and exploited with metasploit+msfvenom + w/o metapsloit ( local exploit sugg. setup inc ).

Cronos

·503 words·3 mins

learnt to perform dns enumeration , learnt how to use sql injection payloads , used lin peas to find a cron job running , ran a php rev shell through the cron job and pwned box CronOS.

Brainfuck

·659 words·4 mins

lets get a list of vulnerabilities as well by giving the apikey using the api switch —api-token [apikey]

Bounty

·292 words·2 mins

modified web.config file that allows the upload of aspx files to upload a aspx reverse shell payload but shell is not stable.

Bastard

·469 words·3 mins

Exploited site made using drupal , used a exploit that allowed remote code exec , got in and then did priv esc with ms10-59 chimchurri exploit.

Nineveh

·614 words·3 mins

intended user path via portknocking left, http://linenum.sh , chrootkit vuln, cron job , process script, burp, binwalk.

Jerry

·47 words·1 min

not able to load up the homepage or connect to the machine for some reason leaving this for later.

Granny

·466 words·3 mins

Did w/o metasploit , learnt how to use dataset how to upload files to server using curl , looked at system info found a suitable local exploit, also learnt how to send files from host to write on targets disk …