THM: Athena

Linux machine chaining SMB enumeration, new-line command injection on an in-development router panel, cron job abuse, and a patched Diamorphine LKM rootkit for root.

August 23, 2026 · 7 min

THM: Hollow Shell

Web challenge exploiting a ZIP-based asset upload through magic-byte forgery and a Zip Slip path traversal to plant a malicious Gunicorn hook.

August 12, 2026 · 5 min

THM: Towel on the Sunbed

Web challenge exploiting a TOCTOU race condition in a daily reward-claim endpoint using Burp Suite’s parallel Repeater requests to unlock a restricted vault.

August 12, 2026 · 4 min

THM: Do Not Disturb

Linux boot2root combining a NoSQL authentication bypass, Node.js SSTI, Node inspector abuse, and disk-group privilege escalation.

August 11, 2026 · 7 min

THM: SQHell

Web challenge working through authentication bypass, header-based blind SQL injection, UNION-based extraction, and a second-order SQL injection.

August 9, 2026 · 8 min

THM: That's The Ticket

TryHackMe web challenge pairing a stored XSS payload with DNS-based data exfiltration and credential brute forcing to take over an admin account.

August 7, 2026 · 6 min

THM: Hammer

Web application challenge chaining OTP brute forcing, a rate-limit bypass, JWT key manipulation, and remote command execution.

July 29, 2026 · 7 min