VulnLab: Breach

Active Directory machine capturing NTLM hashes from a writable SMB share, Kerberoasting a service account, forging an MSSQL Silver Ticket, and escalating via SeImpersonatePrivilege.

March 23, 2026 · 7 min

VulnLab: Baby2

Active Directory box enumerating users over SMB, reusing a weak password, abusing a writable logon script, and escalating through GPO.

March 22, 2026 · 8 min

VulnLab: Baby

Active Directory machine combining anonymous LDAP enumeration, password reset abuse, SeRestorePrivilege execution, and a manual NTDS extraction.

March 21, 2026 · 6 min

HTB: Heist

Windows box recovering Cisco device passwords, RID brute forcing usernames, password spraying, and pulling credentials from Firefox process memory.

March 9, 2026 · 5 min

HTB: Mailing

Windows box abusing a path-traversal bug in hMailServer for credentials, capturing NTLM via a crafted email, and executing code through LibreOffice.

March 8, 2026 · 6 min

HTB: SecNotes

Windows machine exploiting an unprotected change-password endpoint via CSRF to hijack an account, planting a PHP webshell through an SMB-writable IIS site, and recovering Administrator credentials from a WSL bash history file.

March 6, 2026 · 6 min

HTB: Remote

Windows machine recovering Umbraco credentials from a world-readable NFS share, exploiting an authenticated Umbraco RCE for a foothold, and decrypting a TeamViewer 7 password from the registry for SYSTEM.

March 4, 2026 · 5 min

HTB: Giddy

Windows machine using MSSQL injection to force NTLM authentication, gain WinRM access, and abuse the UniFi Video service for SYSTEM.

February 28, 2026 · 6 min

HTB: Querier

Windows machine extracting MSSQL credentials from an Excel macro, capturing and cracking an NTLMv2 hash via xp_dirtree, enabling xp_cmdshell, and decrypting a Group Policy Preferences password for Administrator.

February 27, 2026 · 6 min

HTB: Sniper

Windows machine chaining PHP session poisoning for code execution, SMB-hosted RFI for a webshell, reused database credentials, and a malicious CHM help file for administrator.

February 27, 2026 · 7 min