net rpc password "sebastian" -U "htb.local"/"svc-alfresco"%"s3rvice" -S forest.htb.local It asks for the new password. You set it to P@ssw0rd123! .
No SMB anonymous login. No null session on LDAP… yet. But Kerberos is a talkative protocol. You note the hostname: FOREST.htb.local . You add the domain to your /etc/hosts :
evil-winrm -i 10.10.10.161 -u hacker -p 'Hacker123!' And you’re at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\root.txt . The final flag. You log out, clear your hashes, and take a breath. The Forest machine wasn't about kernel exploits or buffer overflows. It was about patience—listening to LDAP, cracking a service account, climbing the group hierarchy, and resetting a single password to reach the crown. forest hackthebox walkthrough
ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -b "DC=htb,DC=local" "(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=4194304)" dn No immediate hits. But you notice a service account: svc-alfresco . It stands out. No special flags, but it's a low-priv user with a known pattern—often reused passwords. You decide to try AS-REP Roasting anyway, just in case. Using GetNPUsers.py from Impacket:
You have valid credentials: svc-alfresco:s3rvice . Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne. You try evil-winrm : net rpc password "sebastian" -U "htb
ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -b "DC=htb,DC=local" The output is a firehose of objects—users, groups, computers. You grep for cn=users and find something delicious: . You filter for userAccountControl values that don’t require Kerberos pre-authentication.
ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -s base namingcontexts It works. The server hands you the root DSE: DC=htb,DC=local . Now you dig. No SMB anonymous login
Now you have sebastian:P@ssw0rd123! . You try WinRM again:
echo "10.10.10.161 forest.htb.local htb.local" >> /etc/hosts First, you try enum4linux . It's polite but fruitless—null sessions are disabled. So you turn to the sharpest knife in the AD drawer: ldapsearch .