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. S...
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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 ...
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.
Ekoparty 2022 BFS Windows Challenge
In this blog post, we will solve the Windows userland challenge that Blue Frost Security published for Ekoparty 2022. You can find the challenge & description here: https://twitter.com/blue...
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 ...
SQLi, LFI to RCE and Unintended Privesc via XAMLX & Impersonation – StreamIO @ HackTheBox
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 pr...
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 ...
Resource-Based Constrained Delegation - Resourced @ PG-Practice
Additional notes for Resourced, an intermediate difficulty Windows machine on PG-Practice that involves password spraying and an RBCD attack. Notes RBCD via WinRM & StandIn # Upload upload...
Active Directory, JEA & Random Stuff – Acute @ HackTheBox
Acute is a 40-point Active Directory Windows machine on HackTheBox. I’m going to use it to show some techniques which can be useful in other scenarios and keep it short on the things that are not t...
Windows Kernel Exploitation - HEVD x64 Use-After-Free
This part will look at a Use-After-Free vulnerability in HEVD on Windows 11 x64. Vulnerability Discovery We are going to tackle this based on the source instead of the assembly again. There are 4...