Hack The Box: Pilgrimage

Description Pilgrimage is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Web Server File Enumeration Git Repository Exposure ImageMagick Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability Sensitive Data Exposure Privilege Escalation through Binwalk Remote Command Execution Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.219. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.219 PING 10.10.11.219 (10.10.11.219) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.219: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=49.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.219: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=50.4 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.219: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=50.4 ms --- 10.10.11.219 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 49.718/50.178/50.410/0.325 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

November 25, 2023 · 7 min

Hack The Box: Sandworm

Description Sandworm is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Flask web application vulnerable to Server Side Template Injection leading to Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using leaked and re-used httpie credentials User Pivoting by infecting a Rust dependency administrated by Cargo package manager Privilege Escalation by using firejail vulnerability allowing running set-uid binaries Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.218. ...

November 18, 2023 · 11 min

Hack The Box: Broker

Description Broker is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: ActiveMQ Remote Command Execution vulnerability Privilege Escalation via nginx web server executed as root user Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.243. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.243 PING 10.10.11.243 (10.10.11.243) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.243: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=123 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.243: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=122 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.243: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=122 ms --- 10.10.11.243 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 122.114/122.682/123.477/0.579 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

November 9, 2023 · 5 min

Hack The Box: Topology

Description Topology is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: VHOST Enumeration LaTeX command injection Sensitive Data Exposure Apache Password Hash Cracking Privilege Escalation via Gnuplot Cron job Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.217. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.217 PING 10.10.11.217 (10.10.11.217) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.217: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=49.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.217: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=50.5 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.217: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=49.1 ms --- 10.10.11.217 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 49.127/49.749/50.485/0.560 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

November 4, 2023 · 8 min

Hack The Box: PC

Description PC is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: gRPC enumeration SQL Injection over gRPC Sensitive Data Exposure PyLoad Vulnerability Privilege Escalation Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.214. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.214 PING 10.10.11.214 (10.10.11.214) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.214: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=44.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.214: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=43.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.214: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=43.4 ms --- 10.10.11.214 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 43.448/43.806/44.133/0.280 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

October 27, 2023 · 7 min

Hack The Box: Jupiter

Description Jupiter is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Subdomain Enumeration to find an opened Grafana dashboard SQL Injection in Grafana due to use raw PostgreSQL queries leading to Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by interacting with Cron job executed by another user User Pivoting by using the Jupiter Notebook ran by another user leading Privilege Escalation by exploiting a custom binary ability of downloading and creating files Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.216. ...

October 21, 2023 · 12 min

Hack The Box: Format

Description Format is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Local File Inclusion and File Writing vulnerability in PHP application Nginx proxy_pass directive allows writing to a Redis socket User Pivoting via a password retrieve from the Redis database Privilege Escalation via Python variable printing with a custom license generator Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.213. ...

September 30, 2023 · 10 min

Hack The Box: Aero

Description Aero is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Windows Themes vulnerability allowing Remote Command Execution Privilege Escalation via Common Log File System vulnerability Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.237. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.237 PING 10.10.11.237 (10.10.11.237) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.237: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=118 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.237: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=118 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.237: icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=118 ms --- 10.10.11.237 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 118.253/118.306/118.400/0.066 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 127 (128 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Windows machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

September 28, 2023 · 6 min

Hack The Box: Wifinetic

Description Wifinetic is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Anonymous FTP server allows retrieving credentials and a backup of a configuration of OpenWRT Privilege Escalation via a recovery of a Wi-Fi password by a vulnerability of the Wi-Fi protocol Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.247. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.247 PING 10.10.11.247 (10.10.11.247) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.247: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=51.0 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.247: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=56.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.247: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=55.1 ms --- 10.10.11.247 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 50.966/54.204/56.583/2.372 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

September 13, 2023 · 6 min

Hack The Box: MonitorsTwo

Description MonitorsTwo is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Remote Command Execution Sensitive Data Exposure Hash Cracking Misconfigured Docker and SUID Privilege Escalation Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.10.11.211. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.211 PING 10.10.11.211 (10.10.11.211) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.211: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=42.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.211: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=44.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.211: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=43.5 ms --- 10.10.11.211 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 42.750/43.657/44.715/0.809 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

September 2, 2023 · 9 min