Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Hercules Writeup - Insane - Weekly - October 18th, 2025

Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Hercules Writeup - Insane - Weekly - October 18th, 2025

A determined challenger systematically dismantled layers of protection through careful observation and creative problem-solving. Starting with surface-level reconnaissance, they discovered hidden pathways and exploited trust relationships to gradually expand their influence. Through persistence and methodical advancement, they transformed from an outsider into someone with complete authority over the entire domain.
OffSec Gauntlet - ProtoVault Breach Complete Investigation - Advanced - October 15th, 2025

OffSec Gauntlet - ProtoVault Breach Complete Investigation - Advanced - October 15th, 2025

In the storm-battered peaks of a forgotten mountain range, the crystalline walls of ProtoVault shimmered with failing enchantments. The Everbound Order's most sacred sanctuary - guardian of arcane knowledge that maintained the balance of the Cyber Realms - had been breached. A ransom scroll arrived, threatening to unleash the Corespell unless Archivist Verin surrendered himself. But magic alone couldn't solve this digital crisis - it required the skills of a codecaster to trace the breach to its source._
Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Signed Writeup - Medium - Weekly - October 11th, 2025

Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Signed Writeup - Medium - Weekly - October 11th, 2025

In the crystalline fortress of Signed, a humble visitor discovers that whispering the right incantations to the castle's mirrors causes the servants to reveal their secret names in hushed confessions. These stolen whispers, once decoded by moonlight, become silver keys that grant the power to wear masks of nobility—transforming peasant into prince with each ethereal disguise. The traveler learns to forge celestial tickets in the realm's ancient forge, each one a shimmering passport to rooms previously forbidden, climbing ever higher through chambers of increasing grandeur. By weaving these silver threads of borrowed authority and speaking in tongues of trusted spirits, the wanderer ultimately dons the crown of shadows itself. The journey ends at the highest tower where the golden flag awaits, proof that even the mightiest citadel bows to one who masters the art of becoming everyone and no one at once.
OffSec Gauntlet - Complete Grimoire Tutorial Walkthrough  - October 7th, 2025

OffSec Gauntlet - Complete Grimoire Tutorial Walkthrough - October 7th, 2025

The ancient grimoire lay open on the dusty library table, its pages filled with cryptic symbols and hidden meanings. Each puzzle within demanded patience and precision - one wrong interpretation would seal the book forever. The apprentice traced each marking carefully, knowing that masters before had failed at this very challenge. Success required not just knowledge, but the wisdom to see patterns others missed. Only those who could "try harder" would unlock the secrets within
Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Expressway Writeup - Easy - Weekly - September 20th, 2025

Hack The Box - Season 9 HTB Expressway Writeup - Easy - Weekly - September 20th, 2025

From the silence of UDP port 500 where IKE whispers its aggressive confessions, through hashes that bleed like ink in water revealing a secret borrowed from the collective unconscious of rockyou—into the SSH portal as 'ike' who carries the name of his own betrayal, until sudo's chroot prison crumbles at the touch of a poisoned NSS library, teaching us that the path to root flows not through the guarded TCP gates but through the forgotten protocols that speak their truths too loudly to those who remember the old languages of exploitation.
Hack The Box - HTB Previous Writeup - Medium - Weekly - August 23th, 2025

Hack The Box - HTB Previous Writeup - Medium - Weekly - August 23th, 2025

In the labyrinth of Previous, a Next.js application whispers its secrets through middleware's loose lips, where path traversal—that ancient art of asking "../" until the system confesses—meets modern framework hubris. A developer's breakfast preference, immortalized in authentication's fallback logic, becomes the skeleton key to SSH's front door. The final act sees Terraform, infrastructure's faithful automaton, deceived into crowning a false provider with root's scepter—a classic substitution cipher executed in the filesystem. This machine teaches us that every framework's convenience method, every hardcoded "temporary" solution, and every automation tool's helpful override becomes another note in the penetration tester's symphony, where the melody is always "trust, but verify" played backwards.
Hack The Box - HTB CodeTwo Writeup - Easy- Weekly - August 20th, 2025

Hack The Box - HTB CodeTwo Writeup - Easy- Weekly - August 20th, 2025

In the realm where JavaScript breaks free from js2py's illusory cage, CodeTwo reveals how sandboxes built on trust become doorways to forbidden Python realms. Through MD5's ancient weakness and a backup tool crowned with sudo's blind faith, we witness the cascade from web interpreter to root throne. This digital parable teaches that every convenience—from code execution to password reuse to privileged utilities—becomes a stepping stone for those who understand that security's greatest vulnerabilities often hide behind the mask of helpful features.
Hack The Box - HTB Cobblestone Writeup - Insane- Season 8 Weekly - August 9nd, 2025

Hack The Box - HTB Cobblestone Writeup - Insane- Season 8 Weekly - August 9nd, 2025

In the architecture of digital cobblestones, where voting systems whisper secrets through injection flaws, one discovers that databases hold more than data—they guard the keys to deeper realms. Through the ancient art of provisioning services and XML-RPC whispers, we learn that even the most trusted builders of systems can become unwitting architects of their own undoing. This pilgrimage through SQL sanctuaries and Cobbler's forge reminds us that in the realm of cybersecurity, every stone laid in haste becomes a stepping stone for those who seek to understand the hidden pathways beneath.