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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
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