PingPong — Insane Windows machine walkthrough cover

PingPong — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

PingPong is a brutally complex Insane-rated Windows box featuring a bidirectional forest trust, cross-realm Kerberos pivoting through a Hyper-V internal network, JEA ConstrainedLanguage bypass via XmlDocument XXE, and a multi-stage AD CS certificate abuse chain spanning two domains.

April 25, 2026 · 13 min · Logan Dawson
Logging — Medium Windows machine walkthrough cover

Logging — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Logging is a Windows Domain Controller box that chains credential recovery, shadow credentials, a DLL hijack scheduled task, and a full ESC17 WSUS MITM attack to achieve Domain Admin — all while navigating Protected Users restrictions and a disabled Update Orchestrator service.

April 18, 2026 · 10 min · Logan Dawson
Garfield — Hard Windows machine walkthrough cover

Garfield — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Garfield is a fiendishly complex Active Directory box that chains a hidden scriptPath ACE, logon script hijacking, RBCD against an RODC, and a forged RODC golden ticket to compromise a full Windows domain. If you want to understand how Read-Only Domain Controllers can be weaponized, this is the box for you.

April 4, 2026 · 10 min · Logan Dawson