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Forest: A Comprehensive Walkthrough for Hack The Box

Introduction

Forest is a medium-level Linux box on Hack The Box, a popular online platform for cybersecurity enthusiasts to practice their skills in a legal and safe environment. This walkthrough aims to provide a step-by-step guide on how to compromise the Forest box, covering all the necessary steps to achieve root access.

  • Look for readable shares containing configs, credentials, scripts or backups.
    • Use mimikatz (privilege escalation -> SeDebugPrivilege) or built-in tools to extract credentials from memory.
    • Example commands (on a Windows host with appropriate privileges):
      • mimikatz # privilege::debug
      • mimikatz # sekurlsa::logonpasswords
      hashcat -m 18200 hashes.asreproast /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt --force
      
      SeBackupPrivilege        Enabled
      SeRestorePrivilege       Enabled
      

      User flag obtained.

      Exploit: Use Impacket's GetNPUsers.py to request an AS-REP for these users. If successful, you receive a hash. forest hackthebox walkthrough best

      BloodHound: Upload and run the BloodHound ingestor (SharpHound.exe) on the target. Export the data and analyze it on your attacking machine. Forest: A Comprehensive Walkthrough for Hack The Box