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Vulnhub: HappyCorp

This box was fun. It has some interesting vulnerabilities that you don’t often see. The flow and pace was also nice. It is a great box for beginners. 10/10 -...

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Vulnhub: Katana

This is beginner-intermediate machine from Vulnhub. Doing this machine was the first time I had ever heard of capabilities.

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Vulnhub: Hemisphere-Gemini

This is a beginner-level box from Vulnhub. It has custom exploitation, and a privilege escalation vector I hadn’t seen before.

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Vulnhub: Sunrise

This is a beginner-level machine part of the sunset series from vulnhub. I would definitely recommend it, it will expose you to some interesting skills/conce...

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Vulnhub: Nightfall

This is a beginner-level machine part of the sunset series from vulnhub. I would definitely recommend it, it will expose you to some essential skills/concepts

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Vulnhub: Kioptix Level 1

This is the first box in the Kioptix series from vulnhub. It is a beginner level box. Keep in mind that there are no flags on this machine. From this list: h...

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Vulnhub: Symfonos-2

This is the second box in the symfonos series. This series is really well done, and are reminiscent of the boxes on hackthebox, focusing more on exploits tha...

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Vulnhub: Symfonos-1

This is the first box in the symfonos series. This series is really well done, and are reminiscent of the boxes on hackthebox, focusing more on exploits than...

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Vulnhub: sunset

This box is the first box in the sunset series. It is a very simple box, it only requires two steps to get root.

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Vulnhub: sunset-dawn

This is the second box in the sunset series. These boxes are great for beginners. This box has smb on it and it is always great to practice with smb.

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Vulnhub: Shuriken-1

This is an intermediate box from Vulnhub. It is hackthebox-like. It is a really good challenge, would definitely recommend 😛.

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Vulnhub: DevContainer-1

DevContainer-1 is an beginner-intermediate box from Vulnhub. It has a really cool privelege escalation step. 😀

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Vulnhub: Funbox-3

It is the third box in the Funbox series. The Funbox series from Vulnhub is a great series for beginners. This box has a great flow, and alot rabbit holes.

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Vulnhub: Funbox-2

It is the second box in the Funbox series. The Funbox series from Vulnhub is a great series for beginners. It has all the classic boot2root services.

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Vulnhub: Funbox-1

The Funbox series from Vulnhub is a great series for beginners. It has all the classic boot2root services.

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Vulnhub: BSides Vancouver 2018

Beginner-level difficulty, from vulnhub but originally from BSides Vancouver 2018, (Not ​another ​wordpress) Again one of my older writeups, I don’t really e...

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Vulnhub: Mercury

This machine is of beginner difficulty. It’s a good one to practice basic skills. It is always nice when creators write their own apps for custom exploitatio...

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Vulnhub: mhzc1f

A very standard boot2root machine, beginner difficulty. A bit puzzle-y with some focus on enumeration, and stego. This is one of my older writeups and the fo...

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jeopardy

Buckeye CTF 2021: Headless Horseman

This challenge was a medium-difficulty reverse-engineering challenge for Buckeye CTF 2021. It was basicallly 4 reverse engineering challenges in one. It was ...

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NorthSec 2021 CTF: Port Skan

Hello there! This weekend I competed in the NorthSec CTF, it was awesome! I decided to write up the challenge “Port Skan” because it was in my wheelhouse, so...

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San-Diego CTF 2021: Git Good

May 7-9 (Mostly just the 7th tbh), I competed in the San-Diego CTF, run by ACM Cyber, the cybersecurity club out of UC San Diego. All of the challenges had a...

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UTCTF 2021

May 12-13th I competed in UTCTF, I decided to write up some of the challenges I thought were cool.

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CTFlearn: rsa_noob

The rsa_noob challenge from CTFlearn is an medium crypto challenge. Crypto is not my strongest area, so this was a good entry level challenge.

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CTFlearn: Ramada

Ramada is an easy reversing challenge from ctflearn. It is one of those challenges that is both easy and kinda hard at the same time. I got really stuck beca...

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CTFLearn: SimpleBOF

This challenge is an amazing introduction to Buffer Overflows. Try to do it without looking anything up, just by experimenting with how the buffer changes de...

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HackTheBox: Digital Cube

This is an easy forensics challenge from HackTheBox. It is pretty unique, and we get to do some programming which is neat.

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HackTheBox: Lure

This is a beginner-level forensics challenge from HackTheBox, involves a document with an embedded macro, and you must figure out what it is doing.

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justCTF 2021

Here are some challenges from justCTF 2021, not alot because I suck 😐

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CTF Boilerplate (WIP)

Just a cheatsheet for writing scripts to automate some CTF tasks. My dumb lizard brain always forgets how to use these tools.

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HackTheBox

HackTheBox: Active

This is an intermediate box from HackTheBox where you must exploit a vulnerable domain controller. It is really great becuase it is really rare that you get ...

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HackTheBox: Optimum

This is a retired beginner-level machine from hackthebox. It is a windows machine, which I really need more practice at…

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HackTheBox: Blocky

This is a retired beginner-level box from hackthebox. Warning: this box has alot of Rabbit Holes 🐰

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HackTheBox: Jerry

This was from when I was practicing with some retired machines from HackTheBox. It is one of the easiest machines on the hackthebox, and extremely straight-f...

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HackTheBox: Grandpa

Practing retired hackthebox machines. Had trouble with this one, knew what I had to do, but didn’t know how to do it. Need to practice more Windows machines.

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HackTheBox: Bashed

This is a retired beginner-level box from hackthebox. I got stuck when I did it because I really overthought it, it is much simpler than you think. I am prac...

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HackTheBox: Irked

Doing some retired machines for extra practice. I tried this one two years and got stuck. This time I got it 😀.

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TryHackMe

TryHackMe: Anthem

This box is really easy, it doesn’t really any exploitation, just enumeration, but it is a Windows machine…

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TryHackMe: ChillHack

This is a beginner-intermediate level box available on TryHackMe and Vulnhub. It is an excellent challenge with multiple users, and lots of rabbit holes. It ...

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TryHackMe: Agent Sudo

This a great box for beginners available on tryhackme. A bit puzzle-y but it covers all basic skills: scanning, password cracking, stego

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TryHackMe: SimpleCTF

This is a CTF for beginners from tryhackme, it is a good intro to finding and using exploits from the internet/searchsploit.

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hackquest

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rust

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findthebad

findthebad: powerfall-convo

This is log analysis/blue team focused lab. It is an introductory lab for doing log analysis with Kibana. It is the second one in the series.

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findthebad: model-3

This is log analysis/blue team focused lab. It is an introductory lab for doing log analysis with Kibana

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algorithms

Forward-Backward Algorithms

This continues from my last post about Hidden Markov models. This includes a review of the forward algorithm, the backward algorithm, and the Baum-Welch algo...

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Haskell

Tutorial: Haskell

Haskell is a functional programming language. Functions and programs are like mathematical equations. It is really fun to play with.

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Vagrant

Vagrant Tutorial

“Vagrant is an open-source tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage boxes of virtual machines through an easy to use command-line interface”

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Python

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vulnhub

Vulnhub: Venom Walkthrough

Venom is a boot2root machine from vulnhub. I am practicing for my OSCP, and thats what it’s decription says it is for so… I will try to loosely follow the ex...

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random

Gallery

Just some things I don’t won’t to lose.

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