WhyHackMe - THM

WhyHackMe is a medium difficulty machine from TryHackMe which involves exfiltrating a sensitive file from the server using stored XSS to gain foothold. Later using iptables we modify a rule to allow incoming traffic via a certain port in which the attacker had uploaded a web shell to run system commands. Then by decrypting a .pcap file, we find the endpoint containing the backdoor & with the help of that we gain a shell as www-data user where the user has sudo permissions....

January 14, 2024 · 13 min · Shebu