TryHackMe took my work. Work I paid a subscription to do, and fed it to NoScope, an AI they're going to profit off of. Don't teach people about security if you can't respect theirs.
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I just popped a SYSTEM shell on a Windows 7 machine using my own penetration testing framework written entirely in Rust.
Amatsumara is a full exploitation framework including dynamic module loading via C FFI, interactive console, session management, 154 exploit modules, all built in Rust. Tonight I finished implementing EternalBlue (MS17-010) from scratch. Heap grooming, the SrvOs2FeaListToNt integer overflow, kernel shellcode, SrvNet buffer corruption, OS detection to automatically route between Win7 and Win8 exploit paths.
Now I have to try to find a way to sleep and not keep messing around in excitement.
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SEC0 from @RealTryHackMe done.
I know it’s a fundamental's certification, but I treated it like it wasn’t. Went back over weak areas. I completed the exam.
Next step: SEC1.
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Today is officially the worst day of this month, no electricity whole day, I wasn't able to get much done, I did do a little bit of packet analysis.
I can confidently identify common nmap scans. It all boils down to the TCP three way handshake for the TCP connect scan, and Stealth scan.
UDP scan utilizes the icmp protocol to scan the open ports.
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Today is a special day because two great things happened to me. First, I reached the top one percent of @RealTryHackMe. That was one of my goals for this year, so congratulations to me! Now, I have set my sights higher. I want to reach the top one thousand rank on TryHackMe.
Something extraordinary happened today. I was in the GingerHacker Initiative Discord community chatting with the founder. Since I spent my savings on the TryHackMe premium annual subscription, I told him how I'm preparing for SEC1 because it's practical and more affordable than Security+. He immediately offered to sponsor my certification to help me progress in my career. He decided to sponsor both SEC0 and SEC1. Shout out to the #GingerHacker!
It was a crazy and wonderful day! Also, I submitted the speller problem, and now I'm moving to week six.
Python rocks! 💪
Hack w/ Me - Episode 2 is LIVE
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Today, I started working through the network analysis rooms on TryHackMe. I used Wireshark to analyze PCAP files, which went smoothly since I have experience with it. However, I learned how to use statistics more effectively.
Lastly, I found a way to reduce collisions using a better hashing function. Instead of using just the first character to build the hash table, I multiplied the characters to increase entropy. I'm only six seconds behind the staff algorithm.
I also found a way to handle the apostrophe. Since I subtract 65 from the characters, the result is negative, which leads to a segmentation fault. I simply used a conditional statement to handle it.
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Today, I finished the remaining rooms in the Pre-Security Pathway. I reviewed programming concepts and the CIA triad, and I can finally focus on the network analysis rooms.
I also solved several interactive challenges involving the Caesar cipher to demonstrate symmetric encryption, and they were genuinely fun to work through.
Next, I was almost able to complete the speller code, but it still suffers from low performance because I have not yet improved the hash function, which I will work on tomorrow.
I am using a hash table with linked lists for collision handling. Currently, it takes O(n) time in practice due to poor distribution. Collisions are handled using chaining, where each bucket stores a linked list. However, I am only using 26 buckets, and the hash function returns a value based solely on the first character of the word. Each new node is prepended to the list.
As a result, lookups require linear traversal through long linked lists, which significantly impacts performance. Tomorrow, I will work on improving the hash function and compare the results.
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