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Setting up the environment persistence on Hack The Box Parrot Pwnbox
Currently working as a Senior Consultant at Netcompany spending my full-time job solving the SharePoint riddles. In the free time I'm expanding my understanding of cybersecurity through hacking activities. Git fanboy.
Hi, thanks for this...
I'm wondering... I'm just getting started on HTB and I have a Kali Linux machine installed. Do you have a guide for connecting to OpenVPN?
Thanks!
I don't have a guide for that, but HTB have the Introduction to Lab Access help page.
Quick summary - you are downloading the ovpn file from the HTB site, then on your Kali you are connecting to the VPN using sudo openvpn {PATH _TO_OVPN}.
You can reach me out on the Discord, and we can go more step-by-step approach if above information are not sufficient.
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Pwnbox is a customized, online Parrot Security Linux distribution - you can launch it from Hack The Box site and play with it in a browser (similar to the Kasm Workspaces streaming). It has immediate access to the HTB Challenges network, without additional VPN configuration.
More details: What is Pwnbox? How does it work?
I strongly recommend forking the repository then modify scripts to your liking. Disclaimer.
Collect and run init-pwnbox.sh script from my GitHub.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CyberEthicalMe/configs/master/htb-pwnbox/init-pwnbox.sh | sh
Hack The Box is running user_init script each time Pwnbox is started. In the head of this file you can read.
#!/bin/bash
#This script is executed every time your instance is spawned.
So, I've put some effort creating the script that automates setting up the persistence on the Pwnbox by wgetting some resources and modifying the initial user_init script.
init-pwnbox.sh$HOME/my_data.user_init file from the repository. Backups the original file.tmux theme (yes, I forced it a bit and I'm loving tmux now).home directory to preload in user_init. Things like .*.conf files.mate-terminal).ffuf, that is not available out-of-the box (pun intended).user_init~/my_data/home to ~.tmux. Refresh font cache.mate-terminal profiles. May require manual switching profiles.tmux config (Ctrl+A, Shift+I) when tmux launched for the first time.mate-terminal profiles. For some these are not imported on initial user_init - use the import-mate-terminal.sh to import these on the first launch of terminal.