initinfosec’s HackTheBox (HTB) Writeup Index

Index of writeups here

Preface/quick note:

Welcome to the index/landing page for a series of walkthroughs I intend to publish on my hacking practise.

For now, I will be going through as many boxes on TJNull’s/netsecfocus list of OSCP like boxes as I can in preparation for the PWK, which I intend to take somewhat soon. (All of the boxes on this list are retired, which requires a HTB VIP membership. If you’re working on one of these boxes as well, you can also check out the official walkthrough and/or IppSec’s video walkthroughs on each boxes’ page on the HTB site.

As the purpose of these boxes are learning, it’s important to know two things when reading this series of walkthroughs:

1) I’m not an experienced/”pro”/l337 hacker. There’s a lot I don’t know going in to each of these boxes. I will probably take some wrong or inefficient steps at times. I plan to document some of these as well to show what I learned, where I went wrong, and how to avoid the same mistake and get something working. There’s often more than one way to own these boxes, I will just be documenting my path.

2) I will try to avoid the use of metasploit/msf automated scripts as much as possible. As you can only use msf once in OSCP, I think it’s important to try to learn how to run the exploit the manual way. I will not be coding exploits from the ground up, but I will be trying to throw them at the targets without the aid of msf to exploit the targets and gain the shells/callbacks. Yes, in real engagements, we would use msf to our heart’s content, but the more I do manually know, the more I believe I will learn for the future.

Thanks for stopping by. You can find the index of all the writeups for each box I’ve done here. I will try to update this index with each new walkthrough I post.

initinfosec HackTheBox Writeup Index