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: 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 . No SMB anonymous login
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. You note the hostname: FOREST