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Netcat (nc) Full Tutorial – Easy TCP/UDP Guide

February 16, 2026February 15, 2026 by pentestguides
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Practical netcat (nc) guide for Linux: reverse shells, TCP/UDP connections, port scanning, file transfers, and key options for CTF and Pentesting.

Categories Linux Commands Tags ctf, exfiltration, file transfer, linux, linux command, nc, ncat, netcat, nmap, penetration testing, pentest, port scanning, reverse shell, ssh, tcp, udp Leave a comment

nmap Tutorial – the Ultimate Network Scanner

February 14, 2026 by pentestguides
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Master nmap with thist tutorial, from basic host discovery, port and service scanning to more advanced techniques like firewall evasion

Categories Pentest Tools - Networking Tags bug bounty, ctf, dns, enumeration, hackthebox, icmp, ip, network, nmap, penetration testing, pentest, port scan, reconnaissance, tcp, tryhackme, udp Leave a comment

Solving Lookup – TryHackMe Challenge Writeup

February 16, 2026February 12, 2026 by pentestguides
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Complete walkthrough of Lookup room on TryHackMe: form brute-forcing, elFinder CVE and 2 Linux misconfigurations lead us to the root flag.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, curl, ffuf, hydra, linux, nmap, path hijacking, php, python, reverse shell, ssh, sudo, suid, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

Solving Basic Pentesting – TryHackMe Challenge Writeup

February 17, 2026February 11, 2026 by pentestguides
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Full walkthrough of the TryHackMe Basic Pentesting room: web enumeration, SMB usernames, SSH access and SSH private key brute-force.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags brute forcing, brute-force, ctf, ffuf, hydra, john, nmap, private key, privilege escalation, rockyou, smb, ssh, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

RootMe Writeup – Full TryHackMe CTF Solution

February 16, 2026February 8, 2026 by pentestguides
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Full walkthrough of RootMe: reconnaissance, getting a PHP shell then a reverse shell, and elevating our privileges through a SUID misconfiguration

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags apache, ctf, ffuf, find, gobuster, nmap, php, privesc, privilege escalation, reconnaissance, reverse shell, suid, tryhackme, web, web shell Leave a comment

Corridor Writeup – TryHackMe IDOR Challenge

February 16, 2026February 7, 2026 by pentestguides
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Full walkthrough of the Corridor Challenge on TryHackMe. We find the flag by exploiting IDOR through a MD5 id in the URL of the web app.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, curl, ffuf, hash, hashes, idor, MD5, md5sum, nmap, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

TryHackMe TakeOver Writeup – Subdomain Challenge

February 16, 2026February 5, 2026 by pentestguides
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Full writeup of TakeOver from TryHackMe. Subdomain enumeration and TLS certificate inspection leads to the discovery of a secret subdomain

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, ffuf, https, nmap, ssl, ssl certificate, subdomain takeover, takeover, tls, tls certificate, tryhackme Leave a comment

TryHackMe “Agent T” Writeup – Easy Challenge

February 16, 2026February 4, 2026 by pentestguides
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Writeup of TryHackMe challenge “Agent T”. We exploit the backdoored version of PHP 8.1.0-dev to get Code Execution and read the flag.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags backdoor, backdoored php, ctf, nc, nmap, php, reverse shell, tryhackme, web 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

Solving Pyrat – an Easy TryHackMe Challenge

February 17, 2026January 23, 2026 by pentestguides
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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
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