TryHackMe Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/yearoftheowl Year of the Owl follows on from Year of the Dog as the next in the New Year series. It is the first Windows box in the series, and is currently rated hard. Like many of my other boxes, Year of the Owl is inactively themed — kudos if you can guess what it’s based on! As my first Windows box, you can think of Year of the Owl as being something of a warm-up (hence…
TryHackMe Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/yearofthedog Another room, another write-up. Year of the Dog is the next box in my New Year series, following on from the Year of the Pig. As with Year of the Pig, this box is designed vaguely with preparation for a certain exam in mind; however, this box requires knowledge slightly in excess of what is offered by the training material for said certification. As a result, I hope that it allows for an extension of that…
TryHackMe Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/yearofthepig Year of the Pig follows Year of the Fox as the next in my series of New Year boxes. Whilst a fully original box, it is designed to serve as practice for a certain certification I may or may not have recently finished the training for… Year of the Pig is inactively themed, with a variety of easter-eggs hidden throughout the box. Kudos if you can guess the basis! Without further ado, let’s get into the…
TryHackMe Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/yotf Year of the Fox is the second box in what is now my New Year series of challenge boxes. Following on from Year of the Rabbit, this box is a lot harder, and will require knowledge across a variety of different areas. This box was initially used in a celebratory competition marking the first 100,000 members on the TryHackMe platform, and is now a standalone box on the site. The writeup was also published on the…
TryHackMe Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/yearoftherabbit Year of the Rabbit is the second box I built; and was originally designed to accompany my workshop on CTF creation, first presented on the 11th of March 2020 to the UAD Ethical Hacking society. Now that Year of the Rabbit has been made public, I am also releasing this post as the official write-up. Let’s get started! Enumeration: As always, we first need to perform some initial enumeration on the box. Get nmap up and…