Month: January 2024

  • 👽 Hacktoria – The Cartel Connection

    In the old Hacktoria challenge, we try to find the location of a Colombian cartel. Link: https://hacktoria.com/contracts/the-cartel-connection/ Briefing hints: National Police of Colombia yesterday afternoon at 14:37 Colombia Standard Time coastal regions Analyze There is a ship on the left but can’t identify it’s name. On the bottom, we can see something similar to rails.…

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  • 👽 Hacktoria – The Killer Clown

    This Hacktoria challenge was an old OSINT challenged available on their website. Link: https://hacktoria.com/contracts/the-killer-clown/ Verify we are in San Francisco: We know the victim lived near Northwest Berkeley in San Francisco. So we can check the potential parks in this area: After searching the parks, I found one that can correspond to our photo: There…

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  • 👽 Hacktoria – Where’s Klumgongyn

    This writeup is related to an old Hacktoria challenge which is no longer accessible. Link: https://hacktoria.com/contracts/wheres-klumgongyn/ We don’t have any other information than the photo. There are multiple ways to find this location. I took the fastest one. Search on Google: my taxi 6882122 and found a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/879392425455230/ So we know the city…

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  • 💻 Cap – Writeup

    The name of the easy Linux box gives us useful hints… Add the hostname into /etc/hosts: … 10.10.10.245 cap.htb … First run a nmap scan to detect open ports: The nmap scan output is way too long so we’ll just focus on the important parts. The FTP server is not accessible using anonymous login and…

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  • 💻 Buff – Writeup

    In this easy Windows machine we’ll exploit a buffer overflow! Add the IP address in /etc/hosts: … 10.10.10.198 blue.htb … First run a nmap scan: We add the -Pn option to nmap because this is a Windows machine and the ICMP protocol is filtered. So nmap cannot tell if the host is up or not.…

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  • 💻 Blue – Writeup

    To exploit this Windows machine we’ll use an old but efficient vulnerability. Add the IP address in /etc/hosts: … 10.10.10.3 blue.htb … First run a nmap scan: There are only two interestng ports that are open: 139 and 445 which are SMB ports. All the other ones are basic RPC ports. If we try to…

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  • 💻 Beep – Writeup

    This Linux machine is a bit special compared to other Linux challenges because this is a CentOS operating system. Add the IP address in /etc/hosts: … 10.10.10.7 beep.htb … First run a nmap scan: There is a lot of open ports on this machine. But most of them could be rabbit holes. If you have…

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  • 💻 Bashed – Writeup

    This easy Linux challenge uses a vulnerable PHP file to execute commands on the system. Add the IP address in /etc/hosts: … 10.10.10.68 bashed.htb … First run a nmap scan: There’s only one port open which is an Apache web server. The version 2.4.18 is not vulnerable. On the website, the autor wrote about a…

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  • 💻 Antique – Writeup

    In this machine we’ll enumerate services and find a specific UDP port to perform enumeration on it. Add the IP address in /etc/hosts: … 10.10.11.107 antique.htb … First run a nmap scan. We must specify the -Pn option because the machine doesn’t respond to pings: When we try to connect to the telnet service port…

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  • 🔍 OSINT Exercise 010

    Introduction Link: https://gralhix.com/list-of-osint-exercises/osint-exercise-010/ Difficulty: For beginners: a) Easy, b) Easy, c) Hard For experts: a) Easy, b) Easy, c) Medium Briefing: A Twitter user shared three photos of an event. Please answer the following questions: a) Which event is being celebrated in the photos? b) Which two photos were taken by the same person? c)…

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