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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

Pickle Rick Writeup – Easy TryHacKme CTF

February 16, 2026January 29, 2026 by pentestguides
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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

10 Clash of Code Challenges Explained #2

January 26, 2026 by pentestguides
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In this second post about Clash Of Code challenges, we’re solving different problems using Python and tricks from the programming language!

Categories Clash of Code Tags clash of code, code golf, python Leave a comment

Code Golf Cheatsheet

January 24, 2026 by pentestguides
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In this post, I share my up-to-date code golf cheatsheet that includes code tricks for many programming languages: python, go, etc.

Categories Coding Challenges Tags clash of code, code, code golf, coding tricks, perl, programming, python 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
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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

10 Clash of Code Challenges Explained #1

January 24, 2026January 22, 2026 by pentestguides
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In this post, I share my Python solution to 10 Clash of Code challenges. The challenges include reverse, shortest and fastest modes.

Categories Clash of Code Tags clash of code, python Leave a comment

Conversor Writeup – An Easy Linux Hack The Box Machine

February 15, 2026January 20, 2026 by pentestguides
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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

Spookifier – Very Easy HTB Challenge

January 20, 2026January 17, 2026 by pentestguides
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Spookifier is a very easy HackTheBox challenge where we exploit a server side template injection in a Flask website.

Categories Hack The Box Challenge Tags ctf, flask, hackthebox, python, ssti, web Leave a comment
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