Difficulty: Easy · OS: Linux Intro This is the second box I’ve worked through. It’s rated Easy like Cap, but unlike Cap there’s no guided format to lean on here — this one I had to do solo style. That meant a lot more getting lost, researching things I’d never touched before, and stitching the pieces together myself. A couple of the steps (AWS/S3 tooling and the facter privesc) were brand new to me. Here’s how it went. ...
Difficulty: Easy · OS: Linux Intro This is the first real Hack The Box machine I’ve worked through start to finish. I’ve got some experience under my belt, but I’m still a little fledgling at this — so this is as much a record of how I think through a box as it is a writeup. Cap is rated Easy, and it turned out to be a great one to cut my teeth on: a little web enumeration, a packet capture to dig through, and a privesc that taught me something new. Here’s how it went. ...