Recently, I completed the “Airtouch” machine on Hack The Box (Medium difficulty), which provided a great hands-on experience in combining system exploitation with wireless attack techniques.

The challenge started with basic reconnaissance and service enumeration, leading to initial access via SSH as a low-privileged user. From there, misconfigured sudo permissions allowed quick privilege escalation on the host. What made this machine particularly interesting was its setup as a wireless attack platform, requiring interaction with a simulated corporate Wi-Fi environment.

By cracking a WPA2-PSK handshake and connecting to the internal network, I was able to pivot further, access an internal access point, and exploit an unrestricted file upload vulnerability to gain remote shell access. Additional enumeration revealed credentials that enabled lateral movement to a management server, ultimately leading to full root compromise.

Overall, this machine was a great reminder of how misconfigurations, weak credentials, and insecure file handling can chain together into a full system compromise—especially in complex environments involving internal networks and wireless infrastructure.

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