MonteVerde is a pretty straightforward machine, it shows a niche technique of privilege escalation with Azure AD Connect but besides it, it’s pretty typical in terms of pivoting, enumeration, and gaining the foothold. Still, there aren’t many boxes that touch Azure so it was really interesting to explore it.
Sauna is an interesting machine. It goes through a relatively straight-forwards attack path but I fell into a number of false assumptions and rabbit-holes which costed me a lot of time. It’s serves as a great reminder to perform a full enumeration before jumping into any conclusions, to leave no stone upturned and to pay attention to small details.
Escape is a great machine covering basic network enumeration, intermediate knowledge about MSSQL attack vectors and escalation with ADCS. It doesn’t show any niche techniques or obscure vulnerabilities but provides some great fundamental challenges with a seamless and intuitive attack path.
Authority is an interesting take on Windows and Active Directory attacks, it demonstrates a mix of known techniques and a niche pathways that I was not familiar with. It took a seemengly trivial AD privilege escalation and introduced a number of fun challenges that made the box interesting at each part of completion.
