Arroutada is a medium-difficulty machine by RiJaba1 from the HackMyVM platform. Although the author has marked this machine as easy, I don’t consider it that easy since it involves a lot of steps. To elaborate, it features various techniques like fuzzing, bruteforcing, proxying ports, remote command execution, etc. Anyway, the machine isn’t complex to crack […]
Ephemeral Walkthrough from HackMyVM – Writeup
Ephemeral is a difficult machine involving various tricks and techniques to get to the root shell. However, it took some time for me as one of the exploits wasn’t working. So, I had to modify the script to make it work. The machine features local file inclusions, remote command execution using LFI and phpinfo script, […]
Troya Walkthrough From HackMyVM – Writeup
By far, Troya is one of my favourite VMs from the HackMyVM platform. The creator of the machines is sML and he has categorized this as a medium machine. However, I found this machine intriguing and was definitely hard for me. First of all, we need to identify a way to inject OS commands remotely. […]
Opacity Walkthrough from HackMyVM – Writeup
Opacity is a new machine from the platform HackMyVM. The author of the VM is mindsflee. The VM includes vulnerabilities like insecure file upload, remote command execution, insecure file permissions, exploiting cronjobs, etc. In this post, I will describe all the steps starting from identifying the IP address of the target to finding the root […]
Blog Writeup from HackMyVM – Walkthrough
“Blog” is an easy machine from HackMyVM by d4t4s3c. If you have done many machines, this is a piece of cake. If you are new, I definitely suggest you do it on your own. The enumeration starts with enumerating the directories and finding a special blog. It has a file upload vulnerability and one can […]
Writeup of University from HackMyVM – Walkthrough
University is an easy machine from the HackMyVM platform. The author of the machine is SML. The machine’s main exploit is insecure file upload leading to remote code execution. The machine is fairly easy. “Writeup of University from HackMyVM – Walkthrough” Link to the machine Step 1: ARP Scan As usual, my enumeration began with […]
Walkthrough – Government – HackMyVM – Writeup
Government is a moderately difficult machine from the HackMyVM platform. The creator of the machine is 0xJin. There are a lot of unnecessary things one need to ignore while doing this machine. In this walkthrough, I will be only pointing out the correct way to get to the root.
Isengard Writeup – HackMyVM – Walkthrough
Isengard is an easy machine from HackMyVM by bit. It works well on VirtualBox. As for the machine, we can get into the machine by using Remote Command Execution. Similarly, for the root part, we have to abuse the sudo permissions.
Stagiaire – Writeup – HackMyVM – Walkthrough
Welcome to my writeup of a new machine from HackMyVM. Stagiaire is a hard machine by cromiphi. This is a very good machine and is worth trying. Similarly, it works better on VirtualBox. Also, make sure you change the RAM to 1 GB as the author has 3.5 GB by default for this VM.
TheFool – Writeup – HackMyVM – Walkthrough
is post, I am going to show you the steps for boot-to-root TheFool. It is a hard machine by SML from the HackMyVM platform. However, it doesn’t require any special techniques to completely exploit it. And, burp suite is really helpful in this machine. Furthermore, there are some rabbit holes along the way.