Hack The Box: Underpass Machine Walkthrough – Easy Difficulty

Successfully completed the “Underpass” machine on Hack The Box! For the user flag, I enumerated SNMP to discover a Daloradius instance, logged in with default credentials, cracked an MD5-hashed password for the svcMosh account, and used SSH to access the user flag in its home directory. To capture the root flag, I escalated privileges by exploiting sudo permissions on mosh-server, obtaining a session key and port to establish a root session and retrieve the flag from /root/root.txt.

#Cybersecurity #HackTheBox #CaptureTheFlag #PenetrationTesting #LinuxSecurity #PrivilegeEscalation #SNMP #Daloradius #EthicalHacking #InformationSecurity

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May 10, 2025
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HackTheBox – BigBang Machine Walkthrough (Hard Difficulty)

Chained exploitation through misconfigured web app and internal services. We started by exploiting a WordPress plugin vulnerability (CVE-2023-26326) to upload files, followed by a file read vulnerability (CVE-2024-2961) for remote code execution. From there, we cracked the database credentials, gained SSH access as the shawking user, and leveraged a vulnerable API endpoint to escalate to root. This highlights how overlooked configurations and service misconfigurations can lead to a full server compromise.

#CTF #PrivilegeEscalation #WebSecurity #CommandInjection #SSH #WordPress #LinuxPentesting #BugBounty #HackTheBox #RedTeam #CyberSecurity

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May 3, 2025
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PoC rootkit Curing evades traditional Linux detection systems

Researchers created a PoC rootkit called Curing that uses Linux’s io_uring feature to evade traditional system call monitoring. Armo researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit named Curing that relies on Linux asynchronous I/O mechanism io_uring to bypass traditional system call monitoring. “Curing is a POC of a rootkit that uses io_uring to perform different tasks without using any syscalls, […]

April 28, 2025
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