Hashcat

This post is a walkthrough of the Try Hack Me room Red Intro Red is a TryHackMe room created by readysetexploit which was inspired by TryHackMe’s King of the Hill. The theme of this machine is a battle between red and blue in which we try to navigate red’s defense mechanisms in order to take back the machine. We start by finding a Web Server that is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion. We use to read blue’s history file in order to create a password list. We gain access to the server and find that we can edit the hosts file so that a reverse shell that is being executed by red points to us. We then make use of the PwnKit exploit in order to get root and defeat red. Although it seems pretty straightforward, red’s defenses add a layer of complexity that can irritate even the most seasoned player. ...