Purpose: I wanted to do a write up highlighting an SQL injection lab provided by TryHackMe. Although it is listed as ‘Easy’, I do find the lab to be quite beneficial. In this write up I will discuss how I went about retrieving the flag using a python script I created for this purpose. I […]
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Purpose: Another day, another write-up! I have completed most of these boxes from HTB a few weeks back. Just now putting some time aside to document the process. Today’s box Fawn, covers some basics of FTP and NMAP scans. Question: Answer: File Transfer Protocol FTP has been around for many years serving as the primary
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Introduction Just a few weeks ago Cyber Apocalypse 2022 was being hosted on HackTheBox. Personally, I try to jump into as many of the popular CTF challenges as possible just to gain that required experience. In doing so, I realized I am not used to this style format and needed more practice. Although my goal
HackTheBox: Meow Writeup (Starting Point) Read More »
Purpose: A few weeks ago we had created a web application using HTML/PHP which connected to a MySQL database. The database stored a username and password in order to receive a login success message. For this walkthrough we are going to attack it using a few methods. Starting with some manual SQL injection. We will
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Purpose: This lab will help strengthen the understanding of SQL injection. In this lab we will create a MySQL database, setup a simple Apache web server and then attack! This lab will continue over several write-ups and Youtube videos. Overtime we will use more advanced techniques to not only attack the web application but to
Develop a vulnerable web application for SQL injection Read More »
Purpose: Today’s lab will cover installation and setup of an SMB share on an Ubuntu machine. NFS is another option. For my home lab which uses both Windows and Linux machines, SMB is the best choice. For the longest time I would just set up a simple http server using a python module to transfer
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I recently had just finished my first certification with the Azure platform (AZ-900) and wanted to jump into some personal projects before moving on to the next (AZ-104). For several months I have been fairly interested in scripting/programming and have heard about Ansible along with a few other solutions to automate practically anything within a
Automate Everything using Ansible! Read More »
Goal Instructional discussion showing how I manage my Minecraft Server. By the end of this discussion you will have the tools necessary to schedule restarts, create and store backups while also keeping it up and running. This will also help you strengthen your understanding of creating bash scripts and utilizing various tools including Crontab and
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Purpose: As I mentioned yesterday here is the next five levels solved using only python. No walkthroughs were used or references for OverTheWire. Instead all information was from python documentation and other discussion posts relating to python. This has helped me understand the material deeper. Some of the details will be left out considering most
Solving NATAS with Python (levels = (‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ’10’)) Read More »
As I mentioned in one of the original instructions for my first walkthrough on NATAS, I wanted to go at it with Python. My motivation for this was during my initial search on how to complete the objectives using common tools in Kali. While doing so I found a lot of walkthroughs using python. I
Solving NATAS with Python (levels = (‘1′,’2′,’3′,’4′,’5’)) Read More »