ClearFake - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of ClearFake malware which is planted on compromised WordPress websites to convince unsuspecting visitors to download and run malware.
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- MSFVenom 2
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- T1543.003 - Windows Service 2
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- FLARE VM 2
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- Recaf 2
- Reflection 2
- Dark Tortilla Crypter 2
- de4dot 2
- LummaC2 2
- Detect-It-Easy 2
- MS17-010 1
- EternalBlue 1
- PHPBash 1
- Sudo 1
- Jenkins 1
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- KeePass 1
- PTH 1
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- SNMP 1
- Injection 1
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- Jsonrpc 1
- Perl 1
- T1505.003 - Web Shell 1
- T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application 1
- T1095 - Non-Application Layer Protocol 1
- T1222 - File and Directory Permissions Modification 1
- T1222.002 - Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification 1
- Burpsuite 1
- LFI 1
- Webapp 1
- Tac 1
- Getcap 1
- PKI 1
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- Windows 1
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- Mssqlclient 1
- Macro 1
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- Responder 1
- Powersploit 1
- T1505.001 - SQL Stored Procedures 1
- T1059.003 - Windows Command Shell 1
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- T1059.006 - Python 1
- T1552.006 - Group Policy Preferences 1
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- Psexec 1
- DEFCON 1
- FTK Imager 1
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- Volatility 1
- Deadbox 1
- HexEdit 1
- T1546.015 - Component Object Model Hijacking 1
- T1197 - BITS Jobs 1
- T1546.008 - Accessibility Features 1
- T1055 - Process Injection 1
- T1546.010 - AppInit DLLs) 1
- T1127 - Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution 1
- T1127.001 - MSBuild 1
- T1027 - Obfuscated Files or Information 1
- T1027.004 - Compile After Delivery 1
- T1091 - Replication Through Removable Media 1
- System Binary Proxy Execution - T1218 1
- T1218.004 - InstallUtil 1
- T1546.001 - Change Default File Association) 1
- T1548 - Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism 1
- T1548.002 - Bypass User Account Control 1
- T1546.012 - Image File Execution Options Injection 1
- T1218.003 - CMSTP 1
- T1550 - Use Alternate Authentication Material 1
- T1550.002 - Pass the Hash 1
- T1557 - Adversary-in-the-Middle 1
- T1557.001 - LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay 1
- T1218.002 - Control Panel 1
- T1218.005 - Mshta 1
- T1021 - Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts 1
- T1037.001 - Logon Script (Windows) 1
- T1021 - Remote Services 1
- T1021.006 - Windows Remote Management 1
- T1053 - Scheduled Task/Job 1
- T1053.005 - Scheduled Task 1
- T1074 - Data Staged 1
- T1074.001 - Local Data Staging 1
- T1087 - Account Discovery 1
- T1113 - Screen Capture 1
- T1090 - Proxy 1
- T1556 - Modify Authentication Process 1
- T1556.002 - Password Filter DLL 1
- Input Capture - T1056 1
- T1056.004 - Credential API Hooking 1
- OSCP 1
- VirusTotal 1
- Malcode Analyst Pack 1
- Dependency Walker 1
- Exeinfo PE 1
- PE Detective 1
- IOCTL Driver 1
- DeviceIoControl 1
- EPROCESS 1
- Symbolic Link 1
- Kernel Debugging 1
- COM serial port 1
- Named Pipe 1
- Windows Firewall 1
- System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) 1
- KiServiceTable 1
- Graphical Identification and Authentication (GINA) 1
- Professional PE file Explorer - PPEE (Puppy) 1
- AppInit_DLLs 1
- SMTP Daemon 1
- Fakenet 1
- 010 Editor 1
- FindCrypt2 1
- Krypto ANALyzer (KANAL) 1
- IDA-Ent 1
- FindCrypt-Ghidra 1
- WhatIsMyBrowser 1
- PfSSense 1
- Anti-Disassembly 1
- Anti-Debugging 1
- ScyllaHide 1
- TitanHide 1
- HideDebug 1
- Thread Local Storage 1
- Anti-Virtual Machine 1
- ScoopyNG 1
- VmwareHardenedLoader 1
- SIDT - Red Pill Technique 1
- STR 1
- SLDT - No Pill Technique 1
- SGDT 1
- SMSW 1
- IN 1
- CPUID 1
- Maclookup 1
- Original Entry Point (OEP) 1
- OllyDump 1
- PEiD Generic Unpacker 1
- Snaker's Generic Unpacker 1
- ImpREC 1
- POPAD 1
- PUSHAD 1
- POPFD 1
- PUSHFD 1
- ASPack 1
- UPack 1
- PE Explorer 1
- Upack Unpacker 1
- Shellcode_launcher 1
- Blob Runner 1
- Position-Independent Code (PIC) 1
- NOP Sled/Slide 1
- LODSB 1
- STOSB 1
- PDFStreamDumper 1
- Virtual Machine 1
- Vtables 1
- Overloading and Mangling 1
- Inheritance and Function Overriding 1
- Virtual and Non-Virtual Functions 1
- XAMPP 1
- FileZilla 1
- Leaf and Nonlead Functions 1
- Prologue and Epilogue Code 1
- WOW64 Subsystem 1
- Processs Monitor (Procmon) 1
- Cutter 1
- x64Dbg 1
- x32Dbg 1
- Pesstudio 1
- BinDiff 1
- HashMyFiles 1
- Regshot 1
- FakeNet 1
- Process Hollowing 1
- Abstraction 1
- Memory 1
- Assembly Instructions 1
- x86 Opcodes 1
- Operands 1
- Registers 1
- x86 Logical Operators 1
- Stack 1
- Conditionals 1
- Branching 1
- Buffers 1
- C 1
- Variables 1
- Arithmetic 1
- cdecl 1
- fastcall 1
- Binary Patching 1
- YarGen 1
- MalQuery 1
- Hybrid Analysis 1
- STRRAT 1
- Strigoi 1
- Sigma 1
- Crimson Shadow 1
- GoAccess 1
- Java Decompiler (JD-GUI) 1
- JavaScript 1
- CarLambo 1
- Allatori Java Obfuscator 1
- PBKDF2 1
- AES 1
- Urlscan 1
- OSINT 1
- RAT 1
- Redline Stealer 1
- Miscellaneous 1
- Twitter 1
- Aspmuma 1
- Webshell 1
- ASPX 1
- Remcos 1
- RC4 1
- Game Hacking 1
- Pwn Adventure 1
- Pwnie Island 1
- Windbg 1
- Cheat Engine 1
- Key Generation 1
- Integer Overflow 1
- Integer Underflow 1
- Race Condition 1
- Memory Analysis 1
- Cobalt Strike Stager 1
- Cyberchef 1
- Snake Keylogger 1
- Android Malware 1
- JADX 1
- Spyware 1
- PowerShell Webhook Clipper 1
- Clipper 1
- AgentTesla 1
- SFX 1
- Havoc 1
- Demon 1
- Xworm Loader 1
- Steganography 1
- Duvet Stealer 1
- BBY Stealer 1
- VSCode 1
- Electron 1
- NodeJS 1
- Fakebat Malware 1
- MSIX 1
- IDAT Loader 1
- AsyncRAT Injector 1
- TURS Agent 1
- Cryptoshuffler 1
- .JAR 1
- AMOS 1
- Atomic MacOS Stealer 1
- Mac-O 1
- Formbook Downloader 1
- LECmd 1
- LNK 1
- PE-Bear 1
- Scylla 1
- x64dbg 1
- x32dbg 1
- API Monitor 1
- FakeNet-NG 1
- ClearFake 1
- Fake Browser Update 1
- pestudio 1
- FLOSS 1
- Incident 1
- Response 1
- IR 1
Static Malware Analysis
LummaC2 - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a RAR file which leads to the discovery of malicious Github repositories designed to distribute malware.
FormBook Downloader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a LNK which acts as a FormBook download cradle hosted on a compromised WordPress website.
Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) distributed through fake Homebrew domains
Cryptoshuffler/TURS Agent - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a backoored Wasabi Wallet installer and how it deploys TURS Agent onto a system
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Fakebat Malware - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Fakebat Malware a malware-as-a-service downloader
Duvet Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Duvet Stealer, Electron-based malware designed to target Discord users
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
PowerShell Webhook Clipper - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a PowerShell script which takes the contents of your clipboard and exfiltrates it to a webhook any time you use CTRL + C
Android Malware - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Android application which proxies requests and sends specific URLs accessed to remote advertising servers
Snake Keylogger - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the Snake Keylogger and how it steals information from your system
Cobalt Strike Stager - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Cobalt Strike Stager using CyberChef and then supporting findings with specific Python scripts
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Dynamic Malware Analysis
LummaC2 - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a RAR file which leads to the discovery of malicious Github repositories designed to distribute malware.
Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) distributed through fake Homebrew domains
Cryptoshuffler/TURS Agent - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a backoored Wasabi Wallet installer and how it deploys TURS Agent onto a system
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Duvet Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Duvet Stealer, Electron-based malware designed to target Discord users
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
PowerShell Webhook Clipper - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a PowerShell script which takes the contents of your clipboard and exfiltrates it to a webhook any time you use CTRL + C
Snake Keylogger - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the Snake Keylogger and how it steals information from your system
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
CTF
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
Technical
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
Malware Analysis
Aspmuma 2009 ‘xxooxx’ - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a web shell I’ve named Aspmuma 2009 ‘xxooxx’.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Conclusion Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 4 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 2 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
PMA
Practical Malware Analysis - Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Conclusion Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 4 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 2 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
No Starch Press
Practical Malware Analysis - Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Conclusion Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 4 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 2 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
HTB
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
Nmap
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
x86 Disassembly
Pwn Adventure 3 - Pwnie Island
Hacking ‘Pwn Adventure 3: Pwnie Island’, an intentionally vulnerable first-person MMORPG.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 4 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
IDA Pro
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Injector
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Duvet Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Duvet Stealer, Electron-based malware designed to target Discord users
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
PE-bear
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
.NET
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
Snake Keylogger - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the Snake Keylogger and how it steals information from your system
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
.NET Decompilation
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
Snake Keylogger - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the Snake Keylogger and how it steals information from your system
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
Dnspy
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
Snake Keylogger - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the Snake Keylogger and how it steals information from your system
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
Strings
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
CyberChef
FormBook Downloader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a LNK which acts as a FormBook download cradle hosted on a compromised WordPress website.
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Ghidra
Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) distributed through fake Homebrew domains
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
Pwn Adventure 3 - Pwnie Island
Hacking ‘Pwn Adventure 3: Pwnie Island’, an intentionally vulnerable first-person MMORPG.
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Python
Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Atomic MacOS Stealer (AMOS) distributed through fake Homebrew domains
Cobalt Strike Stager - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Cobalt Strike Stager using CyberChef and then supporting findings with specific Python scripts
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC)
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
Kringlecon
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
SANS
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
CounterHack
🎅🎄 SANS 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - A Holiday Odyssey 🍹🏖️
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2023, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2022 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 5
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2022, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2021 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 4
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2021, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 3
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2020, I successfully c...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
🎅🎄 SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon 2
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In December 2019, I successfully c...
PEview
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Process Monitor (Procmon)
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
OllyDbg
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Gobuster
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
T1546 - Event Triggered Execution
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1546.012 Image File Execution Options Injection
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1546.001 Change Default File Association
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1546.010 AppInit DLLs
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1546.008 Accessibility Features
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1546.015 Component Object Model Hijacking
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
HxD
FormBook Downloader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a LNK which acts as a FormBook download cradle hosted on a compromised WordPress website.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Masquerading
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
XOR
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 5 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Pestudio
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
C++
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
SMB
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
Resource Hacker
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Debugging
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Mutex
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Shellcode
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
Cobalt Strike Stager - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Cobalt Strike Stager using CyberChef and then supporting findings with specific Python scripts
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
ApateDNS
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 20 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
x64 Disassembly
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
IDAT Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of IDAT Loader RAT, an advanced malware-as-a-service injector
Remcos RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of Remcos RAT, a prevalent remote access tool/trojan.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Yara
ClearFake - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of ClearFake malware which is planted on compromised WordPress websites to convince unsuspecting visitors to download and run malware.
Havoc Demon Hunting - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a Havoc Demon and how YARA rules can be created with Ghidra to find other samples
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Conclusion Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Netcat
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
SSH
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
FTP
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Smbclient
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Curl
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Snort
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Forensics
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Cheatsheet containing a variety of commands and concepts relating to digital forensics and incident response.
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
T1218 - System Binary Proxy Execution
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1218.005 Mshta
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1218.002 Control Panel
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1218.003 CMSTP
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
PEiD
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
UPX
Agent Tesla - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a UPX packed AutoIT binary which injects an Agent Tesla payload into memory, combined with some brief analysis of the Agent Tesla payload itself.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Packing
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
COM Object
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 7 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Breakpoints
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Hooking
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Keylogger
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Credential Stealer
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Rundll32
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Process Explorer (ProcExp)
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 12 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Fakenet-NG
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 15 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Exceptions
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 8 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Structures (Structs)
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 9 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Endianness
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 4 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
MSFVenom
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Apache
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Git
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Java
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Readpst
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Metasploit
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Hashcat
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Base64
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
SUID
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Searchsploit
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1078 - Valid Accounts
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1078 Valid Accounts
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1505 - Server Software Component
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
SQL
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Powershell
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Penetration Testing
OSCP and Penetration Testing
Cyber Security resources for OSCP and penetration testing.
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
T1543.003 - Windows Service
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1543.003 Windows Service
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
T1543 - Create or Modify System Process
MITRE ATT&CK™ Analysis - T1543.003 Windows Service
Various tests involving methods outlined within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Hack The Box - Querier
Querier is true to its name, requiring exploitation of common SQL vulnerabilities whilst combining elements of combing through macros, insecure SMB shares, h...
DFIR
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Cheatsheet containing a variety of commands and concepts relating to digital forensics and incident response.
2019 Defcon DFIR CTF Write-up
The Unofficial Defcon DFIR CTF comprised of 5 different challenge categories with a total of 82 DFIR related challenges including a Crypto Challenge, Deadbox...
Cheatsheet
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Cheatsheet containing a variety of commands and concepts relating to digital forensics and incident response.
OSCP and Penetration Testing
Cyber Security resources for OSCP and penetration testing.
PowerShell
Xworm Loader - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Xworm Loader which invokes a PowerShell script that retrieves a payload from the end of a picture
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 1 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Rootkit
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
WinDbg
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Process Hacker
LummaC2 - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a RAR file which leads to the discovery of malicious Github repositories designed to distribute malware.
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 10 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
stdcall
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Scdbg
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
CFF Explorer VIII
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 14 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Wireshark
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 11 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Immunity Debugger
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 16 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 13 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
ServiceDLL
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 3 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 17 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Malware
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Analysis
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Lab
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Reverse
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Engineering
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Detect-It-Easy (DIE)
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 21 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 18 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Link List Traversal
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 6 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 19 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
FLARE VM
Practical Malware Analysis - Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 2 Lab Write-up
This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, whi...
Java Decompilation
Cryptoshuffler/TURS Agent - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a backoored Wasabi Wallet installer and how it deploys TURS Agent onto a system
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Recaf
Cryptoshuffler/TURS Agent - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a backoored Wasabi Wallet installer and how it deploys TURS Agent onto a system
STRRAT (Strigoi) - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware STRRAT.
Reflection
Android Malware - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Android application which proxies requests and sends specific URLs accessed to remote advertising servers
Redline Stealer - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of the malware Redline Stealer.
Dark Tortilla Crypter
Dark Tortilla Crypter - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an Agent Tesla sample which has been wrapped using the Dark Tortilla Crypter.
BlackNET RAT - Malware Analysis Lab
Deep dive analysis of the BlackNET RAT malware which recruits your system into a botnet that can be controlled from a centralised PHP web interface.
de4dot
Cryptoshuffler/TURS Agent - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a backoored Wasabi Wallet installer and how it deploys TURS Agent onto a system
AsyncRAT Injector - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of an AsyncRAT downloader, reflective loader, injector, and perfoming AES decryption using CyberChef
LummaC2
ClearFake - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of ClearFake malware which is planted on compromised WordPress websites to convince unsuspecting visitors to download and run malware.
LummaC2 - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a RAR file which leads to the discovery of malicious Github repositories designed to distribute malware.
Detect-It-Easy
ClearFake - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of ClearFake malware which is planted on compromised WordPress websites to convince unsuspecting visitors to download and run malware.
LummaC2 - Malware Analysis Lab
Analysis of a RAR file which leads to the discovery of malicious Github repositories designed to distribute malware.
MS17-010
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
EternalBlue
Hack The Box - Blue
Blue is definitely one of the shortest boxes in Hack The Box history. As the name suggests all that was required to fully compromise this machine was MS17-01...
PHPBash
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Sudo
Hack The Box - Bashed
Bashed was an extremely simple box demonstrating some of the most basic techniques for spawning reverse shells and elevating privileges. It is a great beginn...
Jenkins
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Groovy
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Snapshot
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
KeePass
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
PTH
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
RelayHash
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
ADS
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Pth-winexe
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
JTR
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
John
Hack The Box - Jeeves
Jeeves showed us that an unauthenticated Jenkins server can easily lead to a reverse shell through Groovy Script even if the web-directory is unknown. It hig...
Achat
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
Icacls
Hack The Box - Chatterbox
Chatterbox was a reasonably simple machine which required exploiting a vulnerable ‘Achat’ service with custom shellcode, and then migrating to a more stable ...
SMTP
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
James
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
Cron
Hack The Box - Solidstate
This machine contained a fairly straightforward SMTP vulnerability which didn’t even need to be exploited to fully compromise the machine. It is an essential...
XXE
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
XML
Hack The Box - Dev0ops
Dev0ops highlighted issues with weakly configured XML parsers which lead to an XXE vulnerability, and developer error which lead to SSH keys in commit revisi...
Tomcat
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
JSP
Hack The Box - Jerry
Jerry would have to be one of the easiest machines I’ve ever compromised on Hack The Box. This involved using legitimate credentials to log onto an Apache To...
Msfvenom
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Certutil
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Runas
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Cmdkey
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Mdbtools
Hack The Box - Access
This machine was fairly basic but still provided some useful reminders and tools which can be utilised to export pst file contents on Linux, natively transfe...
Enum4linux
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Cpassword
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
gpp-decrypt
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
GetUserSPNs
Hack The Box - Active
This machine was fairly straight forward and mimicked something you’d unfortunately expect to see even today in a typical penetration test. All in all it’s a...
Node.js
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
GraphQL
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
HelpDeskZ
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
GCC
Hack The Box - Help
Help was an interesting machine which appeared to have multiple ways of gaining access and elevating privileges. In the end it contained elements of graphql,...
Xxd
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Bzip
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
Pspy
Hack The Box - Curling
This machine had some CTF elements to it, but overall wasn’t that difficult to complete through proper enumeration. It highlights some issues which may be pr...
BGP
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
SNMP
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Injection
Hack The Box - Carrier
This machine had some interesting elements to it and really made you think outside of the box. It incorporated a number of elements which you wouldn’t typica...
Zabbix
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Jsonrpc
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Perl
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1505.003 - Web Shell
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1095 - Non-Application Layer Protocol
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1222 - File and Directory Permissions Modification
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
T1222.002 - Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification
Hack The Box - Zipper
This machine took a bit of thinking outside of the box so it was a bit of a nice challenge and involved exploiting both custom binaries and legitimate servic...
Burpsuite
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
LFI
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Webapp
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Tac
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
Getcap
Hack The Box - Waldo
This machine was interesting, starting with directory traversal and LFI vulnerabilities, it then exploits a feature not commonly known which is supposed to b...
PKI
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Masscan
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Crackmapexec
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Puttygen
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Doas
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
SSH-Keygen
Hack The Box - Ypuffy
This machine was quite interesting, and contained a privilege escalation method I’d not seen mentioned elsewhere. Luckily this was confined to the challenge,...
Steghide
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
TTY
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Chmod
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Stego
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
IRC
Hack The Box - Irked
This machine highlighted a few issues such as supply chain compromise, the ease of hiding information using steganography, and how easily a vulnerable binary...
Vim
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
SQLite3
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
DB
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
DeBruijn
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Trufflehog
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Bloodhound
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
EvtxDump
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Sed
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
DDE
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Http2
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
SSL
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Pcap
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Sniffing
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Gdb
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
DNS
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Reversing
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
Cryptography
🎅🎄 SANS 2018 Holiday Hack Challenge (HHC) - KringleCon
Every year the SANS Institute and the Counter Hack Team hosts a ‘Holiday Hack Challenge’ also commonly referred to as HHC. In January 2019, I successfully co...
PlaintextPasswords
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
PRTG
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
Config
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
Grep
Hack The Box - Netmon
Netmon was a very simple box which highlighted issues with open FTP servers, plaintext configuration files, common password conventions, and blindly trusting...
SAM
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
PWDump
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...
mRemoteNG
Hack The Box - Bastion
Bastion was a relatively simple machine with the biggest issue steming from maintaining a connection to a remote mounted drive. Utilising a machine vhd backu...