Introduction Chainsaw was an interesting box that I thoroughly enjoyed. Upon first investigation an anonymous ftp connection allowed access to some intersting files. Further investigation led t...

Introduction Networked was a good introduction to the world of HTB. Generally discussed as the easiest of the active boxes at time of retirement there is nothing particularly complex with getti...

Introduction A medium level difficulty machine from HTB Jarvis involving SQL Injection and a web-shell into sudo and filter bypass to user pivot with a final systemctl abuse to root pivot. I wi...

Introduction Haystack is classified as an easy difficulty machine on HTB. An ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) based machine it offered me a chance to dig into the logging technology. I tho...

Introduction Marked as easy, Safe is a contentious box from HTB requiring a custom developed ROP (return-oriented programming) exploit tied into cracking a KeepPass database. Personally I absol...

Introduction Ellingson was a very interesting box personally. Marked as hard by Hackthebox it involved web enumeration and python console abuse for initial foothold, finding sensitive backup fi...