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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

Lo-Fi Writeup on TryHackMe – File Inclusion

February 16, 2026February 6, 2026 by pentestguides
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This writeup covers the solution of Lo-Fi room on TryHackMe. A PHP File Inclusion along with path traversal allow us to read the flag.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags arbitrary file read, ctf, file inclusion, lfi, path traversal, php, 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

TryHackMe Compiled Challenge – Writeup

February 3, 2026 by pentestguides
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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
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