February 2021 – Trenches of IT

Offensive Security – Proving Grounds – Banzai Write-up – No Metasploit

Posted on February 15, 2021February 8, 2021 by trenchesofit

Banzai from Offensive Security was released on August 3rd, 2020. This machine is a Linux machine with the difficulty rating of intermediate. The flavor text provided with the VM is “You should be careful around raptors – they are dangerous!”. Even after rooting the box, this doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I took an …

Offensive Security – Proving Grounds – Nibbles Write-up – No Metasploit

Posted on February 1, 2021January 24, 2021 by trenchesofit

Nibbles from Offensive Security is a great example of getting root on a box by just “Living off The Land”. This boot to root includes no exploitation scripts and shows the importance of hardening systems before deploying to production. Now, on to the hacking. Reconnaissance We start off with a basic nmap scan. First, lets …