Roadmap

Pwnify is a full music-streaming app built for web application penetration testing practice. Sign up, build playlists, and upload tracks, then chain real flaws from a first foothold to a user flag and full root. Can you own the whole box?

MITRE Engenuity ran 29 commercial EDR products against the exact Carbanak playbook, in the open. Pricey tools missed steps a free Sysmon config caught. Learn the purple loop that finds your detection gaps before attackers do. 🛡️

In advisory AA23-059A, a CISA red team got broad domain access and the org barely detected it. The fix came from the report, not the breach. Learn the structure that turns a compromise into change before your next debrief. 🔎

DarkSide hit Colonial Pipeline through one VPN account with no MFA and forced a 5,500-mile shutdown. Learn to prove that business impact in a lab: stage crown jewels, exfiltrate over DNS and HTTPS, and read what each leaves in the logs. 💰

NotPetya cost the world about $10 billion, and it spread with stolen hashes, PsExec, and WMIC, not a fancy exploit. Learn pass-the-hash, Kerberoasting, and BloodHound to map a domain to Domain Admin before the defenders see you.

Reverse engineer a Linux license binary, recover a hidden flag, and write a keygen to forge the admin key. Read the ARM64 disassembly with objdump and GDB to beat the activation check. A hands-on crackme: can you own it?

Most people think hackers use fancy GUIs. In reality, whoami and hostname are the first two commands typed after every shell drop. You'll run them yourself and understand why attackers need them. 🎯

Most people think /tmp is harmless. Attackers use it to stage tools on every single engagement. You'll map the Linux filesystem and learn which directories leak secrets before your next audit. 🗂️

Attackers don't write exploits first. They cat config files, grep for passwords, and check .bash_history. You'll use cat, head, tail, and file to investigate a system the way real operators do. 🔍

Most people scroll through directories manually. Attackers use find and grep to locate SSH keys, passwords, and SUID binaries in seconds. You'll search a filesystem the way operators do before your next audit. 🎯

chmod 777 is how sysadmins create privilege escalation paths without realizing it. You'll read permission bits like an attacker, audit SUID binaries, and understand why /etc/shadow needs 640 before your next pentest. 🛡️

SOC analysts don't open logs in text editors. They pipe grep into cut into sort | uniq -c to find top offending IPs in seconds. You'll build those one-liners and redirect output like a real incident responder. 🔍

Attackers don't always install backdoors. Sometimes they just run a process and hope nobody checks. You'll use ps, top, and kill to hunt suspicious processes and stop them before they drain your system. 🔎

Attackers don't install GUIs. They run ss to check listening ports, curl to pull payloads, and dig to map internal DNS. You'll use these same commands to hunt suspicious network activity before your next incident. 🎯