HTB Write-up: Bastion

4 minute read Published: 8 Sep, 2019

Bastion just retired this weekend on HackTheBox.eu so I thought I would do a short write-up of what I learned during this Windows box.

The Bastion Windows box retired this weekend on HackTheBox. It was a Windows box, quite easy to solve but learned a lot along the way. It’s my first write-up of a HTB box so it might not be the best but hopefully it will be a nice summary! We learn about SMB, mounting VHD in Linux, stealing Windows hashes, cracking them with John, and exploiting a program for Privesc. 1: Recon First, I do the usual nmap scan I start with on all boxes: nmap -A -oN nmap-bastion.