HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 1
Tactics
Administrator with an empty password on a Windows box — SMB signing disabled, psexec drops SYSTEM in 15 minutes flat. The most honest failure mode in Active Directory.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 1
Administrator with an empty password on a Windows box — SMB signing disabled, psexec drops SYSTEM in 15 minutes flat. The most honest failure mode in Active Directory.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 1
PHP LFI forces the server to issue a NetNTLMv2 request to a rogue Responder listener; the captured hash cracks to Administrator in seconds.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 0
RDP and WinRM both accept a blank Administrator password — attack surface is two services wide when credential assumptions fail at the front door.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 2
XXE in an order form reads the Administrator's SSH private key from disk. job.bat runs as SYSTEM on a schedule — drop a reverse shell into the watched directory.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 0
SMB null session on Windows delivers a flag from an exposed WorkShares share; the takeaway is unauthenticated SMB enumeration without Metasploit.…
HTB STARTING POINT · Tier 2
Anonymous SMB exposes a config file with SA credentials. MSSQL xp_cmdshell goes active, winPEAS finds a PowerShell history file with admin credentials. Classic AD escalation in four steps.…
HTB · Tier 0
Two-domain AD forest under Assumed Breach. NTLM disabled globally. TCP port 88 asymmetrically filtered — a custom impacket monkey-patch unblocks Kerberos. ESC13 on TemporaryWinRM template grants WinRM shell on DC1. ……