My first medium level box. Hack the Box Luke. This one was fun, but honestly I feel like some of the ‘easy’ boxes had more steps. There was some discussion on the forums as well, but these things are pretty subjective. One hacker’s medium… blah blah blah.

SPOILERS INSIDE

Windows networks are more my wheelhouse, just since I see mostly active directory during penetration tests. This was an interesting box with some good SMB issues and opportunities for learning on my part. There was also an interesting backup image network mount technique in here that I hope to use in the future.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I’m really starting to like these Hack the Box machines! It’s good practice to have something you don’t know the exploit vector for and that you have to dig and research and figure out how it works before you get success. I’m also hoping that these notes can serve as a resource for techniques for me later. A “didn’t I do this before on htb?” kind of thing. You’d be surprised how often that happens in my day job.

SPOILERS AFTER HERE - as usual

Time for another Hack the Box challenge! This time we’ll be taking on “Irked”. Hopefully that’s not foreshadowing and I’ll learn new techniques and tools again in another box.

SPOILERS ABOUND - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED