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TryHackMe Compiled Challenge – Writeup

February 3, 2026 by pentestguides
Compiled challenge from TryHackMe - official logo

This writeup shows how to solve the TryHackMe challenge “Compiled”, by extracting the flag from the strings of a compiled program

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags binary, compiled, ctf, program, strings, tryhackme Leave a comment

Lazy Admin Writeup – TryHacKme Challenge

February 15, 2026February 2, 2026 by pentestguides
Lazy Admin TryHackMe Challenge

In this post, we solve the Lazy Admin CTF from TryHackMe by exploiting 2 CVE of SweetRice CMS and a sudo misconfiguration to get root.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags cms, ctf, ffuf, mysql, nmap, php, reverse shell, sql, sudo, sweetrice, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

whatweb Tutorial: Identify Website Technologies

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026 by pentestguides
Whatweb - Linux Web Pentesting tool

whatweb is a Linux pentesting tool that detects the technologies and frameworks of websites: HTTP servers, CMS like Wordpress, Javascript, etc.

Categories Pentest Tools - Web Tags cms, ctf, http headers, http server, joomla, linux, pentesting, php, web, whatweb, wordpress Leave a comment

Pickle Rick Writeup – Easy TryHacKme CTF

February 16, 2026January 29, 2026 by pentestguides
TryHackMe Pickle Rick CTF image

Pickle Rick is a very easy TryHackMe CTF. We complete it by accessing a web portal, getting a reverse shell and exploiting sudo to become root.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, curl, ffuf, find, html, nc, php, python, reverse shell, sudo, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

Neighbour Writeup – Easy IDOR TryHacKme Challenge

February 16, 2026January 28, 2026 by pentestguides
TryHackMe Neighbour room

Detailed writeup of TryHackMe Neighbour room, where we exploit IDOR to display the admin profile and find the flag of the room.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, curl, idor, php, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

Solving c4ptur3-th3-fl4g – a Beginner TryHackMe Challenge

January 31, 2026January 23, 2026 by pentestguides
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c4ptur3-th3-fl4g is a beginner level TryHackMe room where we decode 10 flags, then use spectrogam, steganography and obscurity.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ascii, base32, binary, binwalk, ctf, dcode, hexadecimal, leet, pcrt, python, rot13, spectrogram, tryhackme Leave a comment

Solving Pyrat – an Easy TryHackMe Challenge

February 17, 2026January 23, 2026 by pentestguides
Pyrat TryHackMe logo

Pyrat is an easy TryHackMe challenge where we exploit a Python code execution and use a .git folder to further compromise the server.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, ffuf, fuzz, git, nmap, python, reverse shell, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

Conversor Writeup – An Easy Linux Hack The Box Machine

February 15, 2026January 20, 2026 by pentestguides
Hack The Box Conversor image

Conversor is an easy linux Hack THe Box machine, where we exploit XSLT injection to get a shell and use a needrestart CVE to get root access

Categories Hack The Box Machine Tags ctf, database, ffuf, hackthebox, hackthebox machine, nmap, python, sqlite, web, xslt Leave a comment

Solving ReactOOPS – Exploiting React2Shell on Hack The Box

January 27, 2026January 20, 2026 by pentestguides
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ReactOOPS is a very easy challenge on Hack The Box, designed to teach us how to exploit the recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182).

Categories Hack The Box Challenge Tags ctf, hackthebox, hackthebox challenge, react, react2shell Leave a comment

Solving Dig Dug – an Easy TryHackMe DNS Challenge

February 14, 2026January 19, 2026 by pentestguides
Dig Dug image - TryHackMe easy DNS server room

This writeup solves Dig Dug, an easy Try Hack Me DNS server exploitation. We must translate givemetheflag.com to get the flag!

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, dig, dns, nmap, tryhackme Leave a comment
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