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
Silentium — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

Silentium — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Silentium chains two Flowise CVEs — an unauthenticated password reset token leak and authenticated RCE — with a Gogs symlink exploit to achieve root. A masterclass in chaining modern app vulnerabilities.

April 11, 2026 · 7 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
DevArea — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

DevArea — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

DevArea chains a SOAP service SSRF through Hoverfly middleware RCE to foothold, then escalates via Flask session forgery, command injection, and a symlink/log-write trick to root. A deeply layered box with real-world misconfigurations at every turn.

March 28, 2026 · 9 min · Logan Dawson
Kobold — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

Kobold — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Kobold chains an unauthenticated MCP server command injection with a sneaky newgrp trick that quietly grants Docker group membership — all without a single password prompt.

March 21, 2026 · 7 min · Logan Dawson
VariaType — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

VariaType — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

VariaType is a CVE-chaining masterpiece — three distinct vulnerabilities in font-processing tools combine to take you from unauthenticated to root. If you want practice identifying real-world supply-chain CVEs, this box delivers.

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
CCTV — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

CCTV — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

CCTV is a deceptively layered Easy box where default credentials are just the beginning — JWT forgery, daemon-based command injection, and a clever motionEye auth quirk all stand between you and root.

March 5, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Interpreter — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Interpreter — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Interpreter chains a pre-auth deserialization RCE against a healthcare integration platform with a devious Python f-string injection to reach root — a box that rewards thorough enumeration and creative payload crafting.

February 27, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Pirate — Hard Windows machine walkthrough cover

Pirate — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Pirate is a brutal Hard-rated Windows Domain Controller that chains together gMSA password extraction, ADFS internals abuse, NTLM relay over a Hyper-V double-pivot, and SPN hijacking to reach Domain Admin — a genuine enterprise attack simulation.

February 27, 2026 · 14 min · Logan Dawson