Writeups

Index of every Hack The Box machine writeup published on the blog. Filter by operating system, difficulty or status, search by technique and sort by any column.

Machine SO / OS Difficulty TagsDate
SmartHire🐧 LinuxMediumMLflow, CVE-2024-37054, PickleDeserialization, RCE, PythonPathHijacking, AI2026-09-26
Hercules🪟 WindowsInsaneActiveDirectory, LDAPinjection, ASPnet, ForceChangePassword, OUTakeover, ESC3 …2026-09-21
Silentium🐧 LinuxEasyCVE, WebExploitation, Flowise, Gogs, Docker, PrivilegeEscalation2026-09-12
Pirate🪟 WindowsHardActive Directory, Kerberos, Pre-Windows 2000, RBCD, Constrained Delegation, MSSQL …2026-09-05
Helix🐧 LinuxMediumCVE-2023-34468, ApacheNiFi, ICS, OPCUA, H2Database2026-08-08
Logging🪟 WindowsMediumActiveDirectory, ADCS, ESC1, gMSA, DLLHijacking, WSUS …2026-07-18
CCTV🐧 LinuxEasyCVE-2024-51482, CVE-2025-60787, ZoneMinder, motionEye, SQL Injection2026-07-11
DevArea🐧 LinuxMediumSOAP, Apache CXF, XOP, MTOM, Hoverfly, File Read …2026-07-04
WingData🐧 LinuxEasyCVE, WebExploitation, FTP, PrivilegeEscalation2026-06-27
NanoCorp🪟 WindowsHardActiveDirectory, CVE-2025-24071, CVE-2024-0670, NTLMRelay, BloodHound, DACL …2026-06-20
VariaType🐧 LinuxMediumCVE, WebExploitation, FontTools, FontForge, GitDumper, PrivilegeEscalation2026-06-13
Facts🐧 LinuxEasyMinIO, S3, CVE-2025-2304, CamaleonCMS2026-06-06
Interpreter🐧 LinuxMediumCVE, WebExploitation, Deserialization, PrivilegeEscalation, MariaDB, SSTI2026-05-30
MonitorsFour🪟 WindowsEasyCVE, WebExploitation, Docker, IDOR, PHPTypeJuggling, Cacti …2026-05-23
Pterodactyl🐧 LinuxMediumCVE-2025-49132, CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019, Pterodactyl Panel, PEAR, Path Traversal …2026-05-16
Overwatch🪟 WindowsMediumActiveDirectory, MSSQL, ADIDNS, WCF, SOAP, NTLMRelay …2026-05-09
DarkZero🪟 WindowsHardActive Directory, Kerberos, Certify, ADCS, Unconstrained Delegation, MSSQL …2026-04-04
BountyHunter🐧 LinuxMediumXXE, File Disclosure, PHP, Gobuster, Credential Reuse, SSH …2021-11-20
Explore🤖 AndroidEasyADB, ES File Explorer, CVE-2019-6447, File Disclosure, Port Forwarding, Privilege Escalation2021-10-30
Chaos🐧 LinuxEasyIMAP, LaTeX, RCE2019-05-25