Pandora HTB Walkthrough

This post documents my process for solving the Pandora box on Hack The Box. The challenge focuses on recon, SNMP enumeration, port forwarding, SQLi on an internal service, and a series of lateral movement and privilege escalation steps. Recon Initial port scan: ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 10.10.11.136 | grep ^[0-9] | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//) nmap -p$ports -sC -sV 10.10.11.136 Open ports: 22 (SSH) 80 (HTTP, Apache, Ubuntu) Enumerated with UDP scan (-sU): ...

April 13, 2025 · Joon Kim

Validation HTB Walkthrough

This post documents my process for solving the Validation box on Hack The Box. This challenge centers on SQL injection, writing a web shell via SQLi, and privilege escalation via password reuse. Recon Started with full port scan: ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 <IP> | grep ^[0-9] | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//) echo $ports # 22,80,4566,5000,5001,5002,5003,5004,5005,5006,5007,5008,8080 nmap -p$ports -sC -sV 10.10.11.116 Main open ports: 22 (SSH), 80 (Apache), 4566 (nginx), 8080 (nginx). ...

April 10, 2025 · Joon Kim