Traceback (Easy) Box Initial Foothold Traceback is a retired easy machine that focuses on a backdoor left behind by a previous threat actor. Exploiting the misconfigured update-motd.d directory and the writeable .ssh directory can lead to privilege escalation as root. A comprehensive NMAP scan of …

CTF Challenge Samples - Edition 1 These cover somve of the CTF challenges I developed during my time operating under the ISSS organization at UT Austin. The OSINT challenges in particular, one of my main departments, will be mostly skipped for TOS concerns. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Though I …

Cap (Easy) Box Cap is a retired easy box from HackTheBox. It provides a light introduction into IDOR and Linux capability exploitation. Initial Foothold Let’s start off with enumerating the ports. We can use nmap for this task. nmap <TARGET-IP> This gives us three open ports for numbers …