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Offensive Security released the Linux machine Fail on January 28th 2021. The machine is rated intermediate by OffSec and hard by the community. I felt the box was more towards the easy end of intermediate. The machine requires a bit of knowledge using ssh keys for authentication and an application called fail2ban. For those unfamiliar …
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Offensive Security’s ZenPhoto is a Linux machine within their Proving Grounds – Practice section of the lab. This machine is rated intermediate from both Offensive Security and the community. I feel that rating is accurate. Keep in mind that the IP will change throughout the screenshots and cli output due to working on the box …
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Jacko from Offensive Security is a Windows box with a difficulty rating of intermediate. This box included a simple path to RCE with a tricky foothold and privilege escalation. I end up going down a few rabbit holes at each stage. Lets get started with some recon. Reconnaissance NMAP scan running all scripts, determine services/version …
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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 …
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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 …
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Offensive security has released an easy box offered in the practice section of the Proving Grounds. This Windows box is named Metallus. Lets see if we can get root on this one. Reconnaissance Starting with some initial enumeration. Nmap scan -Pn to ignore ping check, -sV to check versions, -sC to run all scripts, and …
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ClamAV is a machine available in the Practice area of the Offensive Security Proving Grounds. This box difficulty is easy. Lets dive in and take a look. Reconnaissance Starting with a nmap scan enabling all scripts, detecting versions, and output all formats to files starting with the string “simple”. Weaponization and Delivery So using this …
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Internal is a machine available in the Practice area of the Offensive Security Proving Grounds. This machine was super easy, so I will be focusing on manual exploitation and solid enumeration. Reconnaissance Lets start with some basic enumeration. Here we immediately see our target is “Windows Server (R) 2008 Standard 6001 Service Pack 1”. We …
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Offensive security has recently released a new platform for testing your technical skills called the Proving Grounds. This service comes shortly after Offensive Security acquired VulnHub. Within the proving grounds you have a choice to hack the “Play” machines for free, or pay the monthly subscription to get access to offensive security created machines. I …
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