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At this time Active boxes and Challenges will not be available, but most retired boxes and challenges are here.  

any writeups posted after march 6, 2021 include a pdf from pentest.ws instead of a ctb Cherry Tree file.

I've seen several people "complaining" that those of us doing these writeups are not explaining "why" something needs to be added to /etc/hosts. Well, here's the why. If a website is expecting the DNS name and blocking IP requests (i.e http://10.10.11.105 NO and http://horizontall.htb YES) then we need to send the request as to the DNS name. Except without the entry into /etc/hosts, our machine has no idea who, what, when, or where http://horizontall.htb is in order to pull up the page. So, to those citing "plagerism" on these writeups for not explaining why and what /etc/hosts exists and does, let me say this "Penetration Testing expects you to understand basic networking, systems administration, DNS, Linux knowledge, and a lot more. If you don't know, LEARN before you start accusing people of something as serious as Plagerism." and yes, you can quote me on that.

UPDATE: jANUARY 29, 2022: All Retired Boxes to date are up and online. I am still working on the hardware, Mobile, pwn, reversing, and web categories of challenges.

UPDATE: Any writeups after April 6, 2023 will have a video walkthrough as well. Items in Green Have video walkthroughs

BOXES

More added Weekly

Challenges

The Challenges in RED  are ACTIVE Challenges and are not open until their retirement.

The challenged in YEllow are retired challenged, but are still "in-progress", meaning I haven't gotten the writeups done for them yet.

Crypto

Forensics

Hardware

Misc

Mobile

OSINT

PWN

Reversing

Stego

Web

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