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TryHackMe Walkthrough – Watcher

By nPm May 12, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Security, TryHackMe, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Watcher is a TryHackMe boot2root Linux machine that I thought was pretty fun. We use various techniques to first gain a foothold on the box and then move laterally across several users of the system (gaining a little more "power" each time) until we are finally able to privesc using…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Spider Society

By nPm May 5, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Security, Systemd, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "SpiderSociety" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...this is a Linux machine rated as Intermediate. In this video we use gobuster to find a hidden directory which provides access to a login page configured default credentials, then we use some FTP credentials we discover to find a…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Spaghetti

By nPm April 27, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "Spaghetti" in the Offsec Proving Grounds...this is a Linux machine rated as Intermediate (it was hard, LOL). In this video we exploit an IRC bot to get a reverse shell and then explore the machine and determine that we can privesc using database injection after…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Escape

By nPm April 21, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Uncategorized, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "Escape" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...this is a Linux machine rated as hard. In this video we exploit a website using Burp Suite to upload a PHP reverse shell masquerading as a .gif. Once on the machine we determine the we can escape the Docker…

Hack the Box Walkthrough – Outbound

By nPm April 13, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

This is a walkthrough of the Hack The Box machine called "Outbound". In this video we take advantage of Round Cube Webmail, then escape a docker container by dumping a database and retrieving credentials. We privesc by using an exploit that takes advantage of symlinks to add anew user with…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Nickel

By nPm April 9, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Better late then never! Walkthrough of the machine called "Nickel" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...this is a Windows machine rated as intermediate. In this video we exploit a DevOps dashboard to obtain credentials, then use John tools to help decrypt a password protected PDF to learn about a temporary command…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Forward

By nPm March 28, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "Forward" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...This is a Linux machine rated as intermediate and it took me hours, don't watch this unless you want help getting through the machine. In this video we exploit TeamViewer .reg files to extract credentials and connect to a hidden…

Hack the Box Walkthrough – Manage (Metasploit Route)

By nPm March 23, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Metasploit, Networking, Python, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

This is a walkthrough of the Hack The Box machine called "Manage". It features the use of Metasploit to gain a foothold by exploiting Java RMI, then we escalate our privileges by utilizing a trick to take advantage of the old way Ubuntu managed accounts with sudoers access . I…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Snookums

By nPm March 15, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Offsec, Python, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "Snookums" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...This is a Linux machine, don't watch this unless you want help getting through the machine. In this video we take advantage of remote file inclusion to get an initial foothold, we then run linpeas and decide to root the…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – CVE-2023-46818

By nPm March 6, 2026Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Python, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the machine called "CVE-2023-46818" in the OffSec Proving Grounds...don't watch unless you want help getting through the machine. This one is pretty simple and straightforward! https://youtu.be/UNiUKYcUGnE?si=XHvRqpUcOSsddSqY