HackTheBox - Scepter Writeup

Sypnosis Scepter is a Hard Windows machine from HackTheBox featuring an exposed NFS share that contains user certificate files, which after being cracked, allow for initial access and a series of chained Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) abuses (ESC9 and ESC14) to pivot through multiple user accounts, ultimately gaining DCSync rights for full domain compromise. ...

July 19, 2025 · 7 min · 0xblivion

TryHackMe - Fusion Corp WriteUp

Overview Fusion corp is a hard rated box on tryhackme. After some basic enumeration fails, we find a backup file on the web server that contains a list of usernames. One of these users, lparker, is vulnerable to AS-REP Roasting because they have Kerberos pre-authentication disabled. We get their hash, crack it, and get a shell on the box. ...

July 11, 2025 · 5 min · 0xblivion