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Blackfield is a hard level box on HackTheBox and requires basic Active Directory knowledge and enumeration skills to solve. The user part was rather lengthy, but with the use of Bloodhound, the path to root becomes clear very early on. [Read More]

Resolute is a medium level box that is actually pretty easy with knowledge of basic Windows and Active Directory enumeration techniques. I am a bit unfamiliar with some Command Prompt and Powershell command syntax, making some steps very time consuming. Overall, this box is pretty basic and the information from... [Read More]

Spider is a hard level box on HackTheBox and heavily focuses on web exploits, hence the name. As with all hard boxes on HackTheBox, it requires a multi-step process and it is recommended that you have experience with web exploits or knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 prior to attempting... [Read More]

It’s been about three months into my time at SWIFT and jumping from knowing nothing to assisting the creation of a CTF(Capture The Flag) workshop was insane. A CTF, for those who don’t know, is an activity where there are vulnerable services or machines. A player has to utilize these... [Read More]

Lame is an easy level box on HackTheBox and covers many basics. There are multiple approaches for this box and overall it was pretty fun. My approach was to exploit the distccd service to gain a foothold, and then using rlogin to gain root, as it required no password. [Read More]