This article is a writeup about a retired HacktheBox machine: Writeup. (Yes the machine name is writeup, searching a writeup for writeup will be a funny thing.). The machine is classed as an easy one. It involves vulnerability in a known CMS as well as "PATH vulnerability" for the privilege escalation.

This article is a writeup about a retired HacktheBox machine: Swagshop This box was suppose to be an easy one. Turns out it wasn't. I struggle a lot in wrong direction and finally found a path to root this magento box.

This article presents the different methods which failed on the box as well as the solution to root it.

I started to work on Hack The Box machines in 2018. This is a writeup for the retired Jerry machine.

After the bulldog machine I worked on the born2root one. A simple boot2root machine by Hadi Mene.

At the moment I have some times to work again on Vulnhub virtual machine. So here I picked the first one at the moment: Bulldog: 1 A simple boot2root machine by Nick Frichette.

As droopy was not really hard and doesn't contain as much web vulnerability as I would hope for, I tried an other VM SecTalks: BNE0x03 - Simple There were also hints on the description of the machine but with my resolution they do not appear when just browsing the main page of vulnhub so I have not spoiled myself with the hints this time.

A few days ago, I installed a new pentesting box based on Arch Linux with Kali

in a virtual machine. In order to test it I select a light vulnbox on vulnhub : Droopy. There were two hints on the description of the machine on the vulnhub download page:

1. Grab a copy of the rockyou wordlist.
2. It's fun to read other people's email.

We will see how to use them in a moment :)

Still playing with the vulnhub machines this time it is the turn of FlickII. This one is different from the others as it has an android application associated. It would be a great exercice to play with mobile application, decompile it and see what is in the inside.

Since Fart knocker in June I have worked on an other vulnhub machine: darknet. But this one is really hard and get me stuck. I was a bit demotivated to continue vulnhub's machines but I got some time this week, therefore I tried the Acid one.

I continued to play with the vulnhub virtual machine an started the TopHatSec - Fart Knocker. This VM is an Ubuntu 14.04 32 bits.

The goal of this challenge is to break into the machine and root it.

If you beat the box then please shoot me an email! Have fun guys! P.S. I got the word "Fart Knocker" from watching beavis and butthead back in the day. Otherwise you kids might not understand :)