HTB - Late - 10.10.11.156 Overview This supposedly ‘Easy’ difficulty Linux machine Late from https://hackthebox.com was both simple to figure out, and incredibly challenging to pull off. Patie...

I meant to publish these instructions for myself when I first moved over to jekyll and Github Pages for hosting for posterity, but now I have to rebuild my development VM…and I have forgotten how t...

HTB - Acute - 10.10.11.145 Overview This Hard-difficulty Windows machine from https://hackthebox.com was quite a challenge! It required some very specific enumeration to be done, otherwise key...

HTB - Catch - 10.10.11.150 Overview This medium-difficulty machine by MrR3boot from https://hackthebox.com was a very interesting challenge. It was made much harder than it should have been by...

HTB - Attended Overview Short description to include any strange things to be dealt with Useful Skills and Tools Useful thing 1 description with generic example Useful thing 2 https://net2...

Recently, while working on the Hack the Box machine Sharp I encountered a situation where I needed to exfiltrate a whole directory full of files and sub-folders back to my machine. Rather than try...

Migrating my blog When I migrated my blog to GitHub Pages, one of the features I wanted to bring was the ability for readers to give feedback. This site is all about collaboration and learning, b...

HTB - Sharp Overview This hard-difficulty Windows machine from Hack the Box was both challenging and fun. As the name suggests, it focuses on a few user-made code projects that use the C Sharp...

Upgrading remote shells (Windows machines) In a previous article I wrote about upgrading limited Linux shells to a fully usable TTY shell. Usually, after catching a reverse shell from a Windows...

Upgrading remote shells (Unix machines only) (For upgrading Windows shells click here) Usually, after catching a shell through netcat you are placed in a shell that has very limited functionali...