A blog about cybersecurity by Cybix AB

Writeup for the easy ranked HTB box Timelapse


It’s about time we did some Windows hacking. So this time we try out an easy Windows box from HTB. Recon First of all let’s see what Hack The Box stated in their announcement on Twitter. Well not that many clues there. It’s a Windows machine and it’s supposed to be easy. Let’s see what other hackers reported about this box. Ok seems to be kind of real life with some CVE that can be used and also some elements of custom exploitation.…
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Writeup for the medium ranked HTB box Retired


Recon First of all let’s see what information we can gather about this from the release announcement on Twitter. Well, prettymuch nothing. Sometimes there’s a hint in the description but at least I can’t figure it out. Let’s start the machine and see what we get. So now we have an ip address for out target. Before I start to hammer it with evilness let’s take alook at the rating matrix.…
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Writeup for HTB Business CTF 2022 challenge Debugger Unchained


Recon Hack The Box arranged the Business CTF 2022 and Debugger Unchained is a web challenge that was ranked easy. The Business CTF is a special event for corporate teams so easy ranked stuff here does not really mean it’s for beginners. This is the info we got: Our SOC team has discovered a new strain of malware in one of the workstations. They extracted what looked like a C2 profile from the infected machine's memory and exported a network capture of the C2 traffic for further analysis.…
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Writeup for Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2022 challenge Acnologia Portal


Recon Hack The Box arranged the Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2022 and Acnologia Portal is a web challenge that was marked with two stars (**). So it should be a challenge of medium difficulty. This is what the description says: Bonnie has confirmed the location of the Acnologia spacecraft operated by the Golden Fang mercenary. Before taking over the spaceship, we need to disable its security measures. Ulysses discovered an accessible firmware management portal for the spacecraft.…
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