🧠 Hack The Box Writeups

Author: ClumsyLulz
Platform: Hack The Box
Repo: SleepTheGod/HackTheBoxWriteups
Purpose: High‑quality technical writeups for retired HTB challenges and machines

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📌 About

This repository contains technical walkthroughs and deep‑dive explanations for challenges and machines from Hack The Box.

Each writeup focuses on understanding the vulnerability, exploitation methodology, and allocator / protocol behavior — not just reaching a shell.

Content includes

• Binary exploitation
• Heap exploitation
• glibc internals
• Reverse engineering
• Web & misc challenges

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📁 Repository Structure

HackTheBoxWriteups/
├── Blinded_Heap_Exploit_Writeup.md
├── Heapify.md
├── Guardian.md
├── SatelliteHijack.md
└── ...

Each .md file corresponds to a single Hack The Box challenge or machine writeup.

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🧪 Tooling

Common tools used throughout the writeups:

• pwntools
• GDB + pwndbg
• objdump / readelf
• custom glibc & ld loaders
• tmux + gdb automation

Example:

LD_PRELOAD=./libc.so.6 ./binary
python3 solve.py

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🎯 Contribution

Want to contribute?

• Follow existing markdown structure
• Explain why the exploit works
• Include allocator diagrams or pseudocode if helpful
• Do not include active HTB content

Pull requests are welcome.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

All material is provided for educational purposes only.
Only test techniques on systems you own or have permission to assess.

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🧑‍💻 Author

ClumsyLulz

GitHub: https://github.com/SleepTheGod