Shinra & Wutai Videos
I'm linking the playlists for both labs here to avoid single posts for every video. Check out https://vulnlab.com if you want to try them out!
05May
28Jan
VL Shinra Part 4 – Reverse Engineering, Binary Exploitation & Ansible
This is part four of the Shinra series. We will get to access to a linux server via ssh, exploit a small authenticator app & use ansible to move to the next box.
18Jan
VL Shinra Part 3 – Initial Payload Design, Host Enumeration & getting SYSTEM
This is the third video of the Shinra series. We will get a shell on Ashleighs machine & escalate privileges.
10Jan
VL Shinra Part 2 – Enumerate, Enumerate, Enumerate!
This is the second video of the Shinra series. Before setting foot onto any of the network's internal machines, we are going to spend a bit of time enumerating various things from our machine
08Jan
Real World CTF 2023 – NonHeavyFTP
This is a short writeup on the "NonHeavyFTP" challenge from Real World CTF 2023. This was one of the easier challenges with the goal of exploiting LightFTP in Version 2.2 (the latest one on github at the time). I ended up with a file-read vulnerability that allowed to read the...
07Jan
VL Shinra Part 1 – SQLi, Command Injection & Hash Cracking
This is the first video of a series about Shinra, a virtual company in a private red team lab. We will conduct a full pentest on Shinra and explore various topics along the way.
03Nov
Ekoparty 2022 BFS Windows Challenge
In this blog post, we will solve the Windows userland challenge that Blue Frost Security published for Ekoparty 2022.
24Sep
Windows Kernel Exploitation – Arbitrary Memory Mapping (x64)
In this post, we will develop an exploit for the HW driver. I picked this one because I looked for some real-life target to practice on and saw a post by Avast that mentioned vulnerabilities in an old version of this driver (Version 4.8.2 from 2015), that was used as...
17Sep
SQLi, LFI to RCE and Unintended Privesc via XAMLX & Impersonation – StreamIO @ HackTheBox
Video & additional notes for StreamIO, a medium difficulty Windows machine on HackTheBox that involves manual MSSQL Injection, going from file inclusion to RCE and in this case getting the SeImpersonate privilege back to get SYSTEM via an EFS-based potato.
09Sep
Browser Exploitation: Firefox OOB to RCE
In this post, we will exploit Midenios, a good introductory browser exploitation challenge that was originally used for the HackTheBox Business-CTF. I had some experience exploiting IE/Edge/Chrome before, but exploiting Firefox was mostly new to me.