Hack The Box: Signed Machine Walkthrough – Medium Difficulity

After escalating to a SYSTEM-level PowerShell reverse shell using xp_cmdshell and a base64-encoded payload that called back to my netcat listener on port 9007, I navigated to the user profile and read the user flag directly with type user.txt.

With full sysadmin rights on the SQL instance as SIGNED\Administrator (thanks to a forged silver ticket with Domain Admins membership), I enabled xp_cmdshell, launched a reverse shell to land SYSTEM access, then grabbed the root flag from

Box fully pwned — domain admin and SYSTEM in the bag!

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An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the “wisdom of the crowd”, political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more (Oliver Roeder/Financial Times)

Oliver Roeder / Financial Times:
An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the “wisdom of the crowd”, political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more  —  The co-founder of Americ…

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