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SANS 2024 Holiday Hack Challenge - Act 1

SANS 2024 Holiday Hack Challenge - Act 1

See my previous post for the Prologue. After departing the Geese Islands, we make our way back to the North Pole for some new challenges so help find Santa. cURLing The first part of this challenge is just some simple curl-foo that isn't too difficult. The man page

SANS 2024 Holiday Hack Challenge - Prologue

SANS 2024 Holiday Hack Challenge - Prologue

If you aren't familiar, I highly suggest taking a look at the 2024 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge and the previous years as well. These challenges are so well put together and cover very modern and applicable topics in security. This year, the challenge is split into four time-released

Hack The Box: Editorial

Hack The Box: Editorial

Recon NMAP Web Port The web page appears to be a book review site. The "Publish with us" page allows for some info entry and a file upload. The "About" page includes and additional domain tiempoarriba.htb Initial Access Upload Page The "Cover URL"

iPhone RCS With PFSense (or other firewalls)

iPhone RCS With PFSense (or other firewalls)

My wife's iPhone just got its update to allow for RCS chat, but we noticed it was not working as intended. My first assumption was a firewall rule, and sure enough, I was able to find the issue. Looking in the Firewall Logs, I see multiple blocks for

Databricks Security Alerts in Azure

Databricks Security Alerts in Azure

Introduction Through a LinkedIn connection at Obsidian Security, I found a link to a Security Best Practices For Azure Databricks document. The document includes threat models for 7 attack types as well as Protect, Detect, and Respond recommendations for each. 1. Account takeover or compromise 2. Data exfiltration 3. Insider

Hack The Box: BoardLight

Hack The Box: BoardLight

I just wanted a quick win, so I decided to go for one of the easy boxes today. Recon My initial scan reveals just SSH and a web site open. As expected, we have a website with some clues and functionality to test. * Email: [email protected] * Newsletter signup * Request

SolarLab

Recon Ooohhh, a Windows machine! The website is for an instant messaging app called SolarLab IM. Things to try from here: * Web app exploration * Subdomain brute * Path brute * Functionality * Host * SMB user/pass brute force * Interesting port 6791 Web App Exploration Potential usernames from employee names: * Alexander Knight * Claudia Springer

Hack The Box: Intuition

Hack The Box: Intuition

This is a big of a slog and rambling run through of this challenge. This one was hard for me due to the high number of avenues required to be investigated for root. There were red herrings and many necessary paths to explore. Recon Looks like the web service on

Hack The Box Sherlocks: CrownJewel2

Hack The Box Sherlocks: CrownJewel2

If you have not yet set up an environment for viewing logs, I suggest you check out my writeup on that process. I needed to use most of the hints on this one because I have not worked in a Windows domain environment for a while, but it was fun

Log Viewing Environment Setup

Log Viewing Environment Setup

I just discovered Hack The Box Sherlocks; defensive challenges that generally involve some sort of log analysis. To get ready to tackle these challenges, I needed an environment to parse and view the logs. For the easiest process, I decided to go with Security Onion. I have not used SO

Air Force/Industry Management Perspectives

Air Force/Industry Management Perspectives

I just finished up two weeks of Air Force duty to take our Cyber 300 Continuing Education course. The course was a great update for me about the latest changes across the Air Force cyber community. While there though, I noticed a handful of non-cyber discussions that seem to highlight

Manually Run Timer-Triggered Azure Functions

Manually Run Timer-Triggered Azure Functions

When developing and testing Azure Functions, it may be necessary to manually trigger the deployed function for testing purposes. I am simply documenting this here so that it is easier to find when I inevitably need it again. Microsoft has a great write up on how to do this, but

Flight Simulator and PilotEdge For IFR Training

Flight Simulator and PilotEdge For IFR Training

DISCLAIMER: I am not an instructor. Real flight training is necessary to maintain proficiency. I am in the middle of my Instrument Rating training. While the basics of instrument flying make sense to me, I still find myself jumbling up read backs, taking longer than I should to set up

Cobalt Strike C2 Profiles - HTTP

Cobalt Strike C2 Profiles - HTTP

Cobalt Strike does provide documentation on creating and editing C2 profiles but the documentation is limited and not clear in places. This is an attempt to clarify some of the areas that confused me initially. Context This specifically focuses on the HTTP GET and HTTP POST definitions; C2 Profiles control

Why Parental Leave Is So Important

Why Parental Leave Is So Important

Hopefully by this point, there is no confusion about how important parental leave is for new parents. While maternity leave is unique in that new mothers often require time to recover and recuperate from the mental and physical trauma of childbirth, the more general parental leave is also supremely important

Hack The Box: Sau

Hack The Box: Sau

Enumeration Port 80 doesn't give me anything but port 55555 reveals what looks like a Python-based web app. The application appears to be some sort of app to inspect HTTP requests that are sent to the application. There is a function to enter a master token that allows

Hack The Box: Keeper

Hack The Box: Keeper

Enumeration As always, start off with an NMAP Scan Just 80 and 22 open today. We will start by enumerating the web app. To make some of this work easier, I am going to add keeper.htb and tickets.keeper.htb to my hosts file. Navigating to the linked site

Quick and Dirty IP Lookup In Microsoft Sentinel

Quick and Dirty IP Lookup In Microsoft Sentinel

I had a need to determine if IPs in Microsoft Sentinel events were from our VPN block or not. Sentinel does not provide any native way to look up WHOIS information for an IP, so I had to do this in a quick and dirty fashion. Get the IP Ranges

Hack the Box: Inject

Hack the Box: Inject

Enumeration Browsing to the webpage on port 8080 lands at a "Zodd Cloud" product page. There seems to be signup and sign in functionality that will be worth exploring. None of the links work except signup, which lands at an Under Construction page. Oh, but there is an

Streaming Logs From Azure Event Grid to Log Analytics Workspace

Streaming Logs From Azure Event Grid to Log Analytics Workspace

I use Azure Sentinel and the way that Sentinel is able to analyze logs is through a Log Analytics Workspace. Some third-party platforms allow log streaming to Event Grid. So I needed a way to get my logs from Event Grid into the Log Analytics workspace. You might think this

Maytag 5000 Dryer Repair

Maytag 5000 Dryer Repair

DISCLAIMER: I am not a repair professional, just a slightly handy homeowner. We have a Maytag 5000 series washer and dryer in our house that were left by the previous owners. DO NOT ever buy these pieces of junk. I am done with Maytag and won't ever buy

Broken Azure

I saw this link posted on LinkedIn with a collection of free cloud training resources and decided to try my hand at some of the Azure ones given my relative lack of familiarity with Azure versus GCP and AWS. Kind of going in order, I decided to start with Secura&

Hack the Box: Busqueda

Hack the Box: Busqueda

Initial Recon Conduct typical initial portscan └─$ nmap 10.10.11.208 Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-04-26 11:13 EDT Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.208 Host is up (0.089s latency). Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open

Searching for a Job

Searching for a Job

Making a job change is often a serious life event. Balancing the needs of your current job while prioritizing your happiness, mental health, and financial requirements can be rough. I recently left my job as a Technical Director at Praetorian to take a new role as a Senior Detection and

Hack The Box: Precious

Hack The Box: Precious

Initial Enumeration A simple NMAP scan to just get the lay of the land initially. Only two ports appear to be open. SSH appears to allow for password auth, and the web port hosts a page that allegedly converts pages to PDFs. Brute forcing additional pages on the web server