A walkthrough of the SIEM detection framework I built for my Capstone project at NEU delivering Purdue Reference Architecture asset modeling, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS rule design, two-tier detection, and multi-stage kill chain correlation against the TON_IoT testbed. Sponsored by Cummins Inc.
Authority is a medium-rated Windows AD box from the HTB CPTS track. it starts with guest-readable SMB shares leaking Ansible playbooks containing vault-encrypted credentials. after cracking the vau...
Voleur — HackTheBox Writeup Difficulty: Medium OS: Windows Server (Active Directory) Key Concepts: Kerberos-only authentication, Targeted Kerberoasting (WriteSPN), AD Tombstone Object Restoration,...
StreamIO — HackTheBox (Medium) StreamIO was a medium rated Windows box, but honestly it felt somewhere between medium and hard — and it was very lengthy. The attack chain goes: SQL injection on a ...
Walkthrough of HackTheBox Silentium — a medium Linux box chaining Flowise account takeover (CVE-2025-58434) and RCE (GHSA-3gcm-f6qx-ff7p) with Docker container escape and Gogs symlink arbitrary file write (CVE-2025-8110) for root.
Administrator — HackTheBox Difficulty: Medium OS: Windows Server 2022 IP: 10.129.28.107 As is common in real life Windows pentests, you start this box with cre...
Craft — HackTheBox Difficulty: Medium OS: Linux IP: 10.129.229.45 Craft is a medium Linux box centered around a craft beer API. The attack chain involves disco...
VulnCicada is a Medium-rated Windows Active Directory box from Hack The Box that is fundamentally about proper, thorough manual enumeration across multiple services. The twist? Nearly every traditi...
Media is a Medium-rated Windows box from Hack The Box that demonstrates a realistic attack chain centered around NTLM credential theft and Windows privilege abuse. The initial foothold is gained by...
Pov is a Windows machine that starts with a standard web server enumeration leading to a subdomain discovery. The entry point involves exploiting a classic .NET ViewState deserialization vulnerabil...