csuttles (⌐■_■)

Memento Mori

It's been a while since I posted a writeup, and a machine I really enjoyed was recently retired from hackthebox.eu, so here's a walkthrough of Forest. Recon I always start a hackthebox.eu machine by adding the hostname to my /etc/hosts. Here's the output of nmap -sV -O -A -T5 -p- forest [*] Nmap: Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.161 [*] Nmap: Host is up (0.068s latency). [*] Nmap: Not shown: 65511 closed ports [*] Nmap: PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION [*] Nmap: 53/tcp open domain?

I finally got on hackthebox.eu after wanting to go for it for a while. Over the holiday break I leaned in and was able to successfully own 13 machines in 17 days, and achieve the rank of "Pro Hacker". I learned a lot about attacking and defense over the last couple of weeks, and the lessons learned have already paid dividends when I returned to work (at my job that is not InfoSec).

This is a brief introduction to penetration testing for people new to the subject. I recently started working on rounding out my skills with some security related studies, and I've really enjoyed the time I've spent studying penetration testing.Getting started with pentesting can be a bit daunting. There's a huge ecosystem of people, tools, techniques, and resources. It can be a little overwhelming.Here's some resources and a how I started getting some hands-on experience.