Forest Hackthebox — Walkthrough

No SMB anonymous login. No null session on LDAP… yet. But Kerberos is a talkative protocol. You note the hostname: FOREST.htb.local . You add the domain to your /etc/hosts :

GetNPUsers.py htb.local/ -dc-ip 10.10.10.161 -no-pass -usersfile users.txt Where users.txt is every user you scraped from LDAP. The script runs… and a few seconds later, a hash drops:

After a few blind attempts, you remember a trick. Sometimes, you can bind anonymously to LDAP without credentials. You craft: forest hackthebox walkthrough

evil-winrm -i 10.10.10.161 -u sebastian -p 'P@ssw0rd123!' And you’re in. A Windows PowerShell console on FOREST . The user flag is waiting in C:\Users\sebastian\Desktop\user.txt . From here, you need domain admin. sebastian isn’t one yet, but he has interesting group memberships. You run whoami /groups and see he is in Remote Management Users (so WinRM works) and Account Operators .

Instead, you enumerate using BloodHound . You upload SharpHound via SMB (since you can write to a share) or run it remotely? No execution. You fall back to Python's bloodhound.py : No SMB anonymous login

evil-winrm -i 10.10.10.161 -u svc-alfresco -p s3rvice Access denied—WinRM not open. But SMB is. You connect via smbclient and find nothing juicy. You need execution.

You have valid credentials: svc-alfresco:s3rvice . Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne. You try evil-winrm : You note the hostname: FOREST

ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -D "CN=svc-alfresco,CN=Users,DC=htb,DC=local" -w s3rvice -b "DC=htb,DC=local" "(memberOf=CN=Remote Management Users,CN=Users,DC=htb,DC=local)" No. But you find another group: Service Accounts . Within it, a privilege you didn’t expect— on a domain group? No, but you spot that svc-alfresco has GenericWrite over a privileged user? Not directly.