Walkthrough of the HTB Puppy machine: starting with levi.james, the tester abuses HR’s GenericWrite to join DEVELOPERS, accesses a DEV SMB share, cracks a KeePass DB, and sprays creds to gain ant.edwards. Using SENIOR DEVS’ GenericAll, they activate adam.silver, find backups revealing steph.cooper creds, decrypt DPAPI data, and escalate to admin.

I completed the TryHackMe PT1 exam, a 48-hour, hands-on entry-level pentesting cert covering Web, Network, and AD. The exam offered practical learning and flag-based progress, but faced unstable environments and inconsistent difficulty. Prep with THM paths, HTB boxes, and eJPT/eCPPT notes helped me succeed.

I recently passed the eCPPTv3 exam, a hands-on black-box penetration test focused heavily on Active Directory. The official training was insufficient, so I supplemented with Hack-The-Box, TryHackMe, and YouTube videos. Despite exam environment issues and broken tools, careful preparation, note-taking, and persistence led to success.

A detailed write-up of the BroncoCTF 2025 Reverse Engineering challenges, explaining step-by-step solutions for “Reversing for Ophidiophiles” and “Theflagishere!”. It covers Python decryption logic, bytecode decompilation, and function analysis to uncover hidden flags like `bronco{charge_away}` and `bronco{i_am_a_flag}`.

A comprehensive write-up of BITSCTF 2025 challenges across Reverse Engineering, Foreneics, and PWN. It provides detailed walkthroughs of tasks like Loginator, Baby Rev, and Praise Our RNG Gods—covering binary analysis, deobfuscation, memory forensics, and RNG prediction methods used to uncover hidden flags efficiently.

Nullcon GOA CTF 2025 writeup (February 1st, 2025): detailed solutions for REVERSE, WEB, and MISC challenges. Explains using Ghidra, radare2, and Python for reverse engineering tasks, analyzing scrambled data, extracting hidden content from PCAP files, and exploiting web pagination and SQL quirks to retrieve challenge flags.

Detailed write-up of TUCTF 2024 reverse engineering challenges, covering MYSTERY-BOX, SIMPLE-LOGIN, and CUSTOM-IMAGE-GENERATOR. Includes step-by-step binary analysis, decompiled code exploration, password and flag reconstruction, and solving a custom image format, illustrating the full process of tackling complex reverse engineering CTF tasks.