HTB - LogForge
LogForge is a linux machine with a medium level of difficulty both in the exploitation phase and the privileges escalation, in this machine we take advantage of the vulnerability of the apache tomcat service to have access to the manager panel and we will also be exploiting a very critical vulnerability that has just been released recently which is the log4shell.
Rubber ducky by hak5 is a usb that simulates a keyboard that as soon as it is connected to a computer starts to write or perform the payload that we have indicated in a super fast way, in this article we will create some payloads and attacks that we can done and how to mitigate these types of attacks.
Horizontall is a linux machine with easy difficulty level both in the exploitation phase and the privilege escalation is cataloged as medium difficulty, this machine uses the cms strapi version 3.0 beta that has vulnerabilities such as RCE, change users passwords and also the machine has an http server running on port 8000 that is running laravel version 8 that has the vulnerability CVE-2021-3129 (RCE).
Secret is a linux machine with difficulty esay pulling in the exploitation phase when accessing the machine (which for me has not been easy, I will explaining this in this post) and the escalation of privileges is at medium level of difficulty, and this machine consists secret ways to extract information from applications, and this machine is vulnerable to RCE through an API.
Previse is a linux machine with difficulty esay pulling a little to medium both the level of intrusion and privilege escalation pulls a little to medium level of difficulty. this machine has vulnerabilities such as log poisoning and in the part of escalation we take advantage of nopasswd.
pikaboo is a machine with hard difficulty both at the level of instruction and escalation of privileges, It has vunlerabilities such as lfi on the web side and also perl vunlerability, as well as crendential access via ldap.
Backdoor is a linux machine with easy level both in explatation phase and PrivEs, in my opinion for me the explatation it’s medium level of difficulty…
Tmux is a tool that allows us to divide a terminal in several panes and also to speed up when we are working in the console with different functions and shortcuts.
We are going to learn how we can reverse shell in every OS, and some netcat commands that can help us when we are pentesting or scanning our environment.
we are going to learn how to scan a network or a host using nmap, we are going to see some simple nmap commands and commands that help us to pentest.