Hack The Box: CCTV

Description CCTV is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: ZoneMinder CCTV Blind SQL Injection allows the recovery of an user credential Password Reuse from ZoneMinder credential to Linux User Privilege Escalation via motionEye Command Injection 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 10.129.2.141. $ ping -c 3 10.129.2.141 PING 10.129.2.141 (10.129.2.141) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.2.141: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=48.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.2.141: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=48.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.2.141: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=47.2 ms --- 10.129.2.141 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.161/47.973/48.657/0.617 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. ...

July 11, 2026 · 6 min

Hack The Box: DevArea

Description DevArea is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Unauthenticated FTP server allows the download of a .jar file allowing reverse engineering and the enumeration of a HTTP SOAP Apache CXF Server Apache CXF Server Side Request Forgery allowing to read machine files, including Hoverfly service file with credentials Hoverfly Authenticated Remote Command Execution allow access to the remote machine Privilege Escalation via a script allowed to run as root user that runs a replaceable shell binary 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 10.129.22.170. ...

July 4, 2026 · 11 min

Dynamic Analysis on Android - VI - Health band application audit

Introduction In the current landscape of mobile application security and API-based services, protecting user flows is a critical point of failure. Modern applications, by depending on application programming interfaces (APIs) for data management and business logic, expose a considerable attack surface. This analysis focuses on examining the implementation of registration, authentication, and credential recovery functionality of an Android mobile application for a health bracelet by intercepting network traffic using tools such as Frida and a web proxy. ...

July 1, 2026 · 5 min

Hack The Box: WingData

Description WingData is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Wing FTP Server Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution vulnerability Linux user Pivoting via cracking of a salted hash of Wing FTP Server Privilege Escalation via Python Tarfile Realpath Overflow Vulnerability allowing Arbitrary File Write 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 10.129.4.106. ...

June 27, 2026 · 9 min

Hack The Box: Fireflow

Description Fireflow is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: LangFlow web application Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using credentials found in LangFlow environment file Command Execution in a MCP Kubernetes container using a vulnerable web application (to JWT algorithm mismatch and tool creation) Privilege Escalation via a misconfigured Kubernetes cluster with nodes/proxy permission allowing to read all files from privileged containers 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 10.129.85.165. ...

June 23, 2026 · 13 min

Hack The Box: Nexus

Description Nexus is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Git repository enumeration to find credentials in Git history Krayin web application Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using reused Krayin credentials Privilege Escalation via an unsanitized os.path.join function in a Gitea Python script 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 10.129.85.169. ...

June 23, 2026 · 8 min

Hack The Box: Orion

Description Orion is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Craft CMS Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using a reused credential cracked from Craft CMS database Privilege Escalation via an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Telnet 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 10.129.244.146. $ ping -c 3 10.129.244.146 PING 10.129.244.146 (10.129.244.146) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=82.9 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=47.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=47.5 ms --- 10.129.244.146 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.103/59.173/82.884/16.766 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. ...

June 23, 2026 · 7 min

Hack The Box: VariaType

Description VariaType is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Arbitrary File Write in a web application using Python fontTools library Subdomain Enumeration to find a management dashboard Upload of malicious PHP file leads to Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by leveraging Command Injection vulnerability in Python FontForge library Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable Python script executable by root allowing Arbitrary File Write 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 10.129.10.139. ...

June 13, 2026 · 16 min

Hack The Box: Facts

Description Facts is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Web Path Enumeration to find an administration login dashboard Camaleon CMS Privilege Escalation vulnerability leads to access to the administrator dashboard with access to credentials of an internal S3 MinIO bucket Enumeration of the S3 MinIO bucket leads into the discovery of a private SSH key Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable Ruby script allowing the execution with --custom-dir parameter 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 10.129.18.175. ...

June 6, 2026 · 8 min

Hack The Box: Abducted

Description Abducted is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Samba Remote Command Execution by Command Injection User Pivoting by decoding rclone configuration file User Pivoting by taking advantage of incorrect Samba symbolic link configuration Privilege Escalation by rewriting Systemd service configuration 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 10.129.85.94. ...

June 5, 2026 · 8 min