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The Fake AD Tool That Installs Its Own Root CA

A friend who does IT work needed an Active Directory utility and downloaded a free one. It installed without complaint and it works - you get a real AD tool that does real AD things. What got noticed wasn’t the file. It was the behavior coming out of the folder it had dropped things into. He sent me the installer and asked what it actually did. Short answer: the AD tool is genuine. That is exactly why it works. ...

05 Aug 2026 · 11 min · 2144 words · Peter Lymo

Cyber Olympics Africa - Pyjails Writeup

Hi, on weekend I got time participate for Cyber Olympics Africa, which is continental annual competition that designed to address the cybersecurity skills gap and digital divide that persist in Africa, while helping the continent grow its status as an emerging technology hub.We ended up in the top 10 and are now prepared for the final. Jail Break its actually a python sandbox escape challenge, for such challenge goal is to find way to execute system commands in order to find a flag ...

25 Sep 2023 · 11 min · 2226 words · Peter Lymo

Try Hack Me - IGNITE Writeup

Hi, There, I got free time to solve a easy box from try hack me, this box its actually easy one, it consist exploiting a content management system(CMS) so called fuelCMS which was vulnerable with code execution, and rooted with password reuse. recon nmap found one port,80 ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/thm/ignite] └─$ sudo nmap -p- --open -sV -A -n -Pn 10.10.138.76 [sudo] password for kali: Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-16 19:19 EAT Nmap scan report for 10.10.138.76 Host is up (0.24s latency). Not shown: 63864 closed tcp ports (reset), 1670 filtered tcp ports (no-response) Some closed ports may be reported as filtered due to --defeat-rst-ratelimit PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu)) |_http-title: Welcome to FUEL CMS |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) | http-robots.txt: 1 disallowed entry |_/fuel/ No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ). TCP/IP fingerprint: OS:SCAN(V=7.94%E=4%D=9/16%OT=80%CT=1%CU=30543%PV=Y%DS=2%DC=T%G=Y%TM=6505D68 OS:9%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=106%GCD=1%ISR=107%TI=Z%II=I%TS=A)SEQ(SP=1 OS:06%GCD=1%ISR=107%TI=Z%CI=I%II=I%TS=A)OPS(O1=M508ST11NW6%O2=M508ST11NW6%O OS:3=M508NNT11NW6%O4=M508ST11NW6%O5=M508ST11NW6%O6=M508ST11)WIN(W1=68DF%W2= OS:68DF%W3=68DF%W4=68DF%W5=68DF%W6=68DF)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=6903%O=M508NNSN OS:W6%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T2(R=N)T3(R=N)T4(R=Y%D OS:F=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O OS:=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W OS:=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%R OS:IPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S) Network Distance: 2 hops TRACEROUTE (using port 80/tcp) HOP RTT ADDRESS 1 203.97 ms 10.9.0.1 2 245.81 ms 10.10.138.76 OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 249.20 seconds website site port:80 : found the website here, ...

16 Sep 2023 · 4 min · 723 words · Peter Lymo

Try Hack Me - IDE Writeup

Hi, There, I got a spare time to solve IDE box from try hack me, here is how I did it, this a easy box that help you with enumerations skills when doing penetration tests.lets see how to solve this easy box peacefully. Recon nmap got 4 ports, 21,22,80,62337 ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~] └─$ sudo nmap -p- --open -sV -A -n -Pn 10.10.106.60 [sudo] password for kali: Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-14 17:40 EAT Nmap scan report for 10.10.106.60 Host is up (0.17s latency). Not shown: 65531 closed tcp ports (reset) PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 21/tcp open ftp vsftpd 3.0.3 |_ftp-anon: Anonymous FTP login allowed (FTP code 230) | ftp-syst: | STAT: | FTP server status: | Connected to ::ffff:10.9.113.16 | Logged in as ftp | TYPE: ASCII | No session bandwidth limit | Session timeout in seconds is 300 | Control connection is plain text | Data connections will be plain text | At session startup, client count was 3 | vsFTPd 3.0.3 - secure, fast, stable |_End of status 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0) | ssh-hostkey: | 2048 e2bed33ce87681ef477ed043d4281428 (RSA) | 256 a882e961e4bb61af9f3a193b64bcde87 (ECDSA) |_ 256 244675a76339b63ce9f1fca413516320 (ED25519) 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu)) |_http-title: Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) 62337/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu)) |_http-title: Codiad 2.8.4 |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ). TCP/IP fingerprint: OS:SCAN(V=7.93%E=4%D=9/14%OT=21%CT=1%CU=44647%PV=Y%DS=2%DC=T%G=Y%TM=65031BB OS:B%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=106%GCD=1%ISR=109%TI=Z%CI=Z%TS=A)SEQ(SP=1 OS:07%GCD=1%ISR=10C%TI=Z%CI=Z%II=I%TS=C)OPS(O1=M508ST11NW6%O2=M508ST11NW6%O OS:3=M508NNT11NW6%O4=M508ST11NW6%O5=M508ST11NW6%O6=M508ST11)WIN(W1=F4B3%W2= OS:F4B3%W3=F4B3%W4=F4B3%W5=F4B3%W6=F4B3)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=F507%O=M508NNSN OS:W6%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T2(R=N)T3(R=N)T4(R=Y%D OS:F=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O OS:=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W OS:=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%R OS:IPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S) Network Distance: 2 hops Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel website Site website :80 nothing just Apache default page, ...

15 Sep 2023 · 5 min · 947 words · Peter Lymo

NahamCon CTF 2023 Writeups - Android Mobile

Hi I participated in the NahamCon CTF 2023 and dedicated some time over the weekend to solve several interesting questions. Here, I would like to share a few of the intriguing questions that I was able to solve Android | Mobile JNInjaspeak We are all very familiar with Leetspeak, can you crack the code on how JNInjaspeak works walkthrough : its android App, open it , type a word, it get converted into special characters ...

17 Jun 2023 · 3 min · 609 words · Peter Lymo