In the last week I watched through the first module of the AWS CCP training. It was fairly straight forward and reiterating on things I already knew. There were some AWS specific things that I learned such as pricing model. But otherwise the module was mostly “this is what the cloud is”.

I also finished all of the free boxes in the HTB starting point. Starting out these were pretty simple and I had no issue going through them, but the last section had a couple of boxes that stumped me.

Responder

This box took me a bit longer than the others (and yes I know it’s a “VERY EASY” machine). I hadn’t used responder before and I wanted to make sure I actually understood what was happening before copying and pasting commands.

Once I had that down it was a pretty simple step through but it gave me a good base knowledge of the responder tooling.

Unified

The other box that took me a bit was Unified. In this case the part that slowed me down was interfacing directly with a MongoDB instance. I hadn’t done that before outside of basic NoSQL auth bypasses so it was interesting and a good learning moment to go through Mongo documentation to be able to read and modify data inside of a DB the way it was intended to be done.

I want to hear from you

If you have any recommendations on HTB boxes or other trainings I should try. Feel free to leave a comment on this post or submit a form on the contact page.