HTB and TryHackMe Writeups — Jay Patel

I am an aspiring penetration tester working through HTB Academy CPTS toward OSCP. Every writeup in this repo documents the full attack path — enumeration, exploitation, and privilege escalation — with the commands, reasoning, and lessons learned at each step.

HTB writeups are only published after a machine is confirmed retired.

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HTB Machines — Linux

Easy

Machine	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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Medium

Machine	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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HTB Machines — Windows

Easy

Machine	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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Medium

Machine	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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HTB — Active Directory

Machine	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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HTB — Web Challenges

Challenge	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
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TryHackMe — Rooms

Room	Difficulty	Key Technique	Date	Writeup
Simple CTF	Easy	FTP anon, SQLi CVE-2019-9053, sudo vim	March 2026	writeup
Bounty Hacker	Easy	FTP anon, Hydra SSH brute force, sudo tar	March 2026	writeup
Basic Pentesting	Easy	SMB enum, SSH brute force, world-readable id_rsa, ssh2john	March 2026	writeup
Fowsniff CTF	Easy	OSINT, POP3 brute force, MOTD cube.sh privesc	March 2026	writeup
Kenobi	Easy	SMB anon, NFS enum, ProFTPD mod_copy CVE-2015-3306, SUID PATH hijack	April 2026	writeup

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Progress

Category	Completed	Target
HTB Linux Easy	0	10+
HTB Linux Medium	0	5+
HTB Windows Easy	0	5+
HTB Windows Medium	0	5+
HTB Active Directory	0	10+
HTB Web Challenges	0	9+
TryHackMe Rooms	5	Ongoing
Total	5	40+