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Overview

Welcome to the Hack The Box (HTB) section of my blog!

Hack The Box is a hands-on cybersecurity platform offering hundreds of virtual machines, challenges, and labs suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. HTB promotes a "learning by doing" approach where you practice real-world techniques in a safe, simulated environment.

Common categories you'll encounter on Hack The Box include:

  • 🕵️‍♂️ Web Exploitation
  • 🧪 Binary / Pwn (Binary Exploitation)
  • 🧩 Reverse Engineering
  • 🔐 Cryptography
  • 🔎 Forensics
  • 🧭 Active Directory / Enterprise
  • 🧰 Misc / OSINT / Scripting

Why Hack The Box?​

Hack The Box provides a wide range of practical exercises - from Jeopardy-style machines (Machines & Challenges) to enterprise-scale labs (Fortresses, Endgames, Pro Labs). It's ideal for those who want to:

  • Improve practical offensive security skills.
  • Learn the full process of finding vulnerabilities, exploiting them, and maintaining access.
  • Prepare for roles in red teaming or penetration testing.

HTB also has a large community, numerous write-ups and walkthroughs, and HTB Academy - a structured course library for more formal learning.

What you'll find here​

In this section I share my personal write-ups and solutions for HTB machines and challenges. Each write-up explains not only how I solved the problem, but also why I chose the approach - the goal is to help you understand the investigative process: where to look, how to analyze findings, and how to craft an exploit.

Write-ups will be organized into: Machines, Challenges, Active Directory, Forensics, and lab series (e.g., Endgames, Pro Labs).

Happy hacking!

@tndt