Sense Writeup

0x01 Reconnaissance

0x02 Exploitation






Advanced Media & Mechanics
Found 27 items
HELM & SALVO DEVELOPMENT NOTES: KEEPING ONE SHIP AT THE CENTER
The current direction for Helm & Salvo puts ship handling and gunnery first, with escorts and expedition choices built around the same flagship.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
Unsorted command notes for Vim, IFS, interactive shells, and command execution. The IFS section is still unfinished.
MSFVENOM
MSFVenom commands for binary and web payloads, scripting payloads, shellcode, and the handlers used with them.
WINDOWS PRIVILEGE ESCALATION
An unfinished historical note on Windows privilege escalation. The original body contains only a TODO.
SWAGSHOP WRITEUP
An unfinished historical note on Swagshop. It records the initial scan and service versions; enumeration, foothold, privilege escalation, and lessons were left blank.
FRIENDZONE WRITEUP
A FriendZone walkthrough using DNS zone transfers, an anonymous writable SMB share, local file inclusion, and a writable os.py imported by a root cron job. A PHP filter question remains unresolved.
CHANGELOG
Notes on site updates, changes to the writeup format, and the return to writing in December 2021 after a year away.
IRKED WRITEUP
An Irked walkthrough using the UnrealIRCd backdoor, an image containing a password, and viewuser for privilege escalation. The original notes retain open questions about enumeration and login requirements.
VALENTINE WRITEUP
An unfinished historical note on Valentine, covering SFTP and Heartbleed enumeration, an encrypted SSH key, and unsuccessful decryption or login attempts. The foothold and privilege escalation sections are blank.
LEARNING PLAN
My OSCP study plan, covering Linux, Python, MSF, Windows, and buffer overflows, with links saved for later.
RESOURCES
Resources I found while preparing for OSCP, covering enumeration, shells, privilege escalation, and preparation guides.
FILE TRANSFER
A command cheat sheet for transferring files with Netcat, Wget, Curl, and PowerShell on Linux and Windows.
SENSE WRITEUP
An unfinished historical note on Sense, consisting mainly of reconnaissance and exploitation screenshots, with a reminder to include more file extensions in directory scans.
REVERSE SHELL
Reverse shell commands for Bash, Netcat, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, and Xterm, with the original testing notes.
COMMON PROBLEMS
Notes on curl certificate and protocol errors, plus a Kali VMware networking problem where the device appeared as unmanaged.
NIBBLES WRITEUP
Screenshot-led Nibbles notes on finding the application version, using a weak password and file upload to get a shell, and gaining root through a sudo misconfiguration.
BEEP WRITEUP
Historical Beep notes on several attempted routes, including local file inclusion, an upload exploit, remote code injection, and Shellshock. Some attempts failed and several sections remain unfinished.
TRAINING PLAN
A practice plan using OSCP-like Hack The Box and VulnHub machines, followed by the PWK course, OSCP labs, and reports.
LINUX PRIVILEGE ESCALATION
Linux privilege escalation notes on enumeration, scripts, misconfigured permissions, scheduled tasks, SUID, and exposed credentials, with unfinished sections left in place.
VERSION COMPARISON
Notes on finding software release dates and a version-comparison technique I still need to understand better.
BASHED WRITEUP
A Bashed walkthrough covering port scanning, the phpbash web shell, switching to scriptmanager through sudo, and a Python script run by a root cron job.
SHOCKER WRITEUP
A Shocker walkthrough from port and directory scanning to Shellshock, debugging the nmap payload, and gaining root through passwordless sudo access to Perl.
NMAP TIPS
Notes from a few Nmap experiments, comparing scan options and timing, adjusting retries, and using a report stylesheet.
AT THE BEGINNING
OSCP preparation notes on setting up my pentesting system, writing lab walkthroughs, and recording what I learn along the way.
LAME WRITEUP
A detailed Lame walkthrough comparing several exploit routes, including Samba usermap_script, a shared-filesystem approach, distcc, and local privilege escalation. Failed attempts and unfinished investigations are retained.
HTB ENVIRONMENT
Historical notes on connecting to the Hack The Box VPN, checking the tun0 address, and removing a stale interface. The OpenVPN installation section is unfinished.
KALI SETUP
My Kali setup notes, covering networking, package sources, tools, and terminal settings, followed by an attempt at a one-click initialization script.