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Threat Hunting with Yara

Introduction First off, YARA has one of the best names of a tool. It stands for “Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym.” Respect. There’s a good explanation of YARA here: https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/what-is-yara Essentially, YARA is an open-source tool designed to help malware researchers identify and classify malware. Think of it as a supercharged search engine for finding malicious software. It works by using rules that define patterns to look for in files. These patterns can be specific strings of text, hexadecimal values, or even regular expressions.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | 5 minutes Read
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Privilege Escalation

Intro Today’s walkthrough goes over some basics with lateral movement and privilege escalation. We’re not too far into the weeds of enumeration yet, but let’s dive in. This box can be found here: Hack The Box - Academy - (you will need active access to HTB Academy) Research We’re given a box to ssh into, with the user: user1 and password password1. Our task is to SSH to the server with the provided credentials and, after logging in, try to find a way to move to user2, to get the flag in /home/user2/flag.

Sunday, July 7, 2024 | 4 minutes Read
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Public Exploits

Intro In this intro to using public exploits, we’re going to “Try to identify the services running on the server above, and then try to search to find public exploits to exploit them. Once you do, try to get the content of the ‘/flag.txt’ file.” This box can be found here: Hack The Box - Academy - (you will need active access to HTB Academy) Research First, we took our spawned target: 94.

Monday, July 1, 2024 | 5 minutes Read