in this article i’m gonna show a neat technique that i learned recently while hacking a machine in HackTheBox platform! this technique leverages SMB outbound connection with SQLi to get access to the system. NTLM and SQLi? How? now you might ask how does it work? the answer to this question is that in…

this article is the walkthrough of the machine firstileaks of vulnhub. IP: Beautifully presented by the machine the machine itself presented me with its IP address when it was booted up so that i wouldn’t need to scan for its IP again. its IP was 192.168.1.8. Scanning then i used nmap right away to scan its network: …

this article is a walkthrough to kioptrix 3. Information gathering in this phase i tried to find the IP address using nmap:

this article is the write-up for kioptrix 4 (1.3). the IP address is 192.168.1.14. Scanning i first ran nmap: nmap -T4 -p- -A -n -sS -oN nmap.tcp 192.168.1.14 Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.14 Host is up (0.00055s latency). Not shown: 39528 closed tcp ports (reset), 26003 filtered tcp ports (no-response) PORT STATE…

this article is kioptrix 5’s write-up. Scanning i found the IP using: nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 which got me the IP:

this article is kioptrix level 2's write-up. Enumeration i used netdiscover to get the IP address of kioptrix machine and it was 192.168.1.9 Scanning i used nmap to scan the machine and found ports open: nmap -T4 -p- -A -n -sS -oN nmap.tcp 192.168.1.9 Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.9 Host is up (0.00030s…

this article is about kioptrix 1 machine write-up which is downloadable at vulnhub website. this machine is quite easy and straight-forward. Getting the IP i used this little naughty tool to get the IP faster:

this article is about “LazySysAdmin” machine write-up + how to secure it a bit more and having a little more fun that usual. this machine is available to download at vulnhub website for free. Enumeration first things first i need the IP address for this machine i connected kail machine and…

I know WEP is old and not much used nowadays but there are still peoples out there that use WEP! WEP is really easy to crack because of the flaws that it has which are covered and fixed in WPA/WPA2. The flaw? so about the flaw, WEP uses an old encryption called…