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25 Jul, 2026

Hack The Box: Fries Machine Walkthrough – Hard Difficulty

Hard Machine Bloodhound, Certipy, Challenges, DebugFS, docker, Gitea, gobuster, HackTheBox, hashcat, LDAP injection, Ligolo-ng, Linux, metasploit, nfs, Penetration Testing, pgAdmin4, port forwarding, PostgreSQL, rustscan, Samba, ssh, Windows

Just wrapped up another Hack The Box machine: Fries (Hard).

TThis machine provided a realistic attack path that started with source code review in Gitea, where leaked credentials in a Git commit led to authenticated PostgreSQL RCE through pgAdmin. From there, I pivoted through the internal Docker network using Ligolo-ng, abused an exposed NFS share and debugfs to gain host access, then exploited PWM configuration weaknesses to capture LDAP credentials. The final stage involved Active Directory enumeration and AD CS (ESC6/ESC7) abuse to obtain an administrator certificate and compromise the domain. A great lab for practising web exploitation, Docker security, Linux privilege escalation, internal pivoting, and Active Directory attacks.

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22 Nov, 2025

Hack The Box: Mirage Machine Walkthrough – Hard Difficulity

Hard Machine autologon, BloodHoundCE, bloodyAD, Certipy, Challenges, HackTheBox, hashcat, impacket, john the ripper, nats, nfs, nxc, Penetration Testing, Windows, winpeas

Compromising the Mirage domain started with a simple clue hidden in an exposed NFS share. Inside a PDF report was a missing DNS record—just enough to pivot. By hijacking the DNS entry, I intercepted NATS JetStream traffic and captured real authentication logs, including valid credentials. After fixing the system time and obtaining a Kerberos TGT, I gained my first foothold on the domain controller and captured the user flag.

From there, the path to domain dominance unfolded through Active Directory weaknesses. An SPN ticket leak led to a cracked password, which opened the door to BloodHound reconnaissance and more credentials. I reset a disabled user’s password, extracted a service account’s managed password, and used Certipy to transform certificate abuse into full machine-level impersonation. With Resource-Based Constrained Delegation enabled, I forged Kerberos tickets, dumped every domain hash, and finally authenticated as Administrator—securing the root flag.

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19 Jul, 2025

Hack The Box: Scepter Machine Walkthrough – Hard Difficulty

Hard Machine ADCS, Bloodhound, bloodyAD, Certipy, Challenges, ESC14, ESC9, evil-winrm, HackTheBox, hashcat, ldapsearch, nfs, openssl, Penetration Testing, showmount, Windows

I conquered the “Scepter” machine on Hack The Box, a challenging Active Directory exploit! Initially, I cracked weak .pfx certificate passwords using pfx2john and rockyou.txt. After syncing time, I extracted D.BAKER’s NTLM hash via Certipy and used BloodHound to reveal A.CARTER’s password reset privileges, exploiting ESC9 to capture the user flag. Subsequently, H.BROWN’s access to P.ADAMS’s altSecurityIdentities enabled an ESC14 attack, forging a certificate for passwordless authentication. Consequently, P.ADAMS’s DCSync rights allowed domain hash extraction, securing the root flag via Evil-WinRM.

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Hack The Box: Fries Machine Walkthrough – Hard Difficulty

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