Machine Overview Machine Name: Intelligence Difficulty: Medium Operating System: Windows This is a write-up for the Hack The Box machine Intelligence, which was retired on 27 November 2021...

💾 Machine Overview Name: Puppy Difficulty: Medium OS: Windows Category: Active Directory Attack Chain: Valid Creds → ACL Abuse → KeePass → Password Spray → AD Object Control → DPAPI Abu...

💾 Machine Overview Name: Sequel Difficulty: Medium OS: Windows Category: Active Directory / MSSQL / ADCS Attack Chain: Anonymous SMB → MSSQL Coercion → Log Analysis → ADCS ESC1 Sequel...

Forest — Hack The Box Walkthrough Synopsis Machine Name: Forest Prepared By: k1ph4ru Machine Author(s): egre55 & mrb3n Difficulty: Easy Classification: Official Forest is an easy Windows mac...

🧸 Machine Overview Name: Fluffy Difficulty: Easy OS: Windows (Active Directory) Scenario: Assumed Breach Attack Chain: SMB Write → NTLM Leak (CVE-2025-24071) → AD ACL Abuse → ADCS (ESC1...

🖥 Machine Overview Name: Sauna Platform: Hack The Box Difficulty: Easy Category: Active Directory Tech Stack: Windows Server, Kerberos, Active Directory Sauna is a beginner-friendly A...

Platform: Hack The Box Target OS: Windows Category: Active Directory Difficulty: Medium 0x1 Initial Enumeration SMB Enumeration Anonymous SMB access was tested and confirmed. smbclient -L //1...

Machine Overview Machine Name: Active Difficulty: Easy Operating System: Windows This is a write-up for the Hack The Box machine Active, which focuses on abusing SMB misconfigurations, Gro...

The PatriotCTF 2025 roster featured a fun, four-part OSINT challenge track titled “Where’s Legally Distinct Waldo.” This series was a true geolocation scavenger hunt, pushing players to precisely ...

This OSINT challenge was pure evil—four layers of nested 7z archives, each locked behind an MD5-hashed Wikipedia URL with only a cryptic photo per layer to guide you. No hints. No mercy. Just rage-...