Active Directory : Introduction to (AD) Outline: 1. What Is Active Directory? Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s centralized identity and access management (IAM) system. It allows organizations to manage users, devices, permissions, and policies from a central location — the Domain Controller. Think of AD as the central nervous system of a Windows network. It […]
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Windows Privilege Escalation: OSCP & Pentesting Essentials Introduction Privilege escalation on Windows isn’t about flashy exploits or rare zero-days. It’s about spotting the quiet, common mistakes: misconfigured services, overly permissive registry keys, stored credentials, and broken trust models. Whether you’re working through OSCP labs, engaging in a red team assessment, or hacking away in your
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Linux Privilege Escalation: From Low-Priv to Root Enumeration First — Always Before you even think about privilege escalation, stop and assess the environment. Enumeration isn’t a step — it’s the foundation for everything that comes next. Privilege escalation on Linux is rarely about zero-day exploits. It’s about spotting misconfigurations, leftover credentials, poor permissions, and overlooked
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Manual Exploitation – Windows Edition Not every engagement gives you the luxury of using Metasploit. Whether you’re sharpening your skills for OSCP or working around security controls, mastering manual Windows exploitation is a must. This guide walks you through how to compromise Windows targets without Metasploit, covering enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation — step
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Manual Exploitation for Pentesters: Linux Edition Metasploit is powerful, but real pentesters know how to operate without it. Whether you’re on a system where it’s not allowed, prepping for a cert like OSCP, or just want to understand how the mother f*cker gets hacked—this guide will walk you through manual exploitation from start to shell,
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Mastering Metasploit: If you’re serious about penetration testing, you need to know Metasploit. It’s one of the most powerful tools in the offensive security toolkit. Whether you’re scanning, exploiting, escalating privileges, or post-exploitation looting, Metasploit offers a modular, flexible, and heavily supported framework to do it all. This post is a complete breakdown of how
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FTP over TLS (FTPS): Pentesting Encrypted File Transfers FTP over TLS, aka FTPS, upgrades classic FTP by adding encryption with TLS/SSL. While it’s more secure than plain FTP, it’s not invincible. Misconfigurations, weak certificates, or fallback to plain FTP can open attack doors. Let’s walk through the pentesting lifecycle on FTPS: scanning, enumeration, exploitation, and
Cracking HTTP Authentication: When people think of authentication, they think login pages. But some services tuck away a gatekeeper at the protocol level—HTTP Authentication. Whether it’s Basic, Digest, or Bearer, understanding how these mechanisms work helps pentesters bypass them, crack them, or abuse them. Here’s everything you need, step-by-step. 1. What is HTTP Authentication? HTTP
Sniffing Secrets with SNMP: The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) was never designed with security in mind. It was meant to monitor and manage network devices—printers, switches, routers, servers—not to keep secrets. But guess what? It often does store secrets… and sometimes, hands them to you like candy. In this post, we’ll cover SNMP from
Breaking into MySQL: MySQL is one of the most popular relational databases in the world—and often overlooked as a foothold during penetration tests. With poor configurations, weak credentials, and overly permissive access, MySQL can go from backend database to full system compromise. Let’s walk through how to discover, enumerate, exploit, and post-exploit MySQL like a
