I believe most threat hunters would already be familiar with the Pyramid of Pain. Most hunters aim to detect artefacts and tools, as they are higher up the pyramid. However, there is scarce information available to guide them in doing so. Using my red team knowledge, I would like to expand on ...

I have written an OSCP review and a SANS SEC660 review a few years ago. As time passes, I find these reviews harder and harder to write. Over the years, I have learnt on the job, through my own research and through such courses and CTFs. All this prior knowledge has made it very difficult for ...

Most guides out there give a walkthrough on solving individual functions within vulnserver. However, when practising for OSCE, I do not want the solutions. Instead, I want to know the order of difficulty of the various functions so I can start from the easiest function and work my way towards ...

I came up with this technique a few years ago and never had to queue for fresh notes for ang bao since. Hence, I believe it is worth sharing. When you receive your ang bao this year, do not spend or deposit the fresh notes. Keep it and pass it to your parents to fill their ang bao for Chinese ...

If you received an email like the one below, would you try out the voucher code and see if it works? I sure as heck would, there is literally zero risk from doing so. Assuming the voucher code works and your account is credited with $5 immediately, how far would you be willing to go to get an ...

We have all come across malware which overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a machine, leaving it unbootable. The code required to overwrite the MBR is surprisingly simple. We will first need to open a write handle to the physical device using the CreateFile API. The MBR is stored in the ...

After looking at the published solutions for FLARE-On 6, I realised that for challenge 11, vv_max, most people used a script to either reverse the AVX functions or to brute force it. My approach was different, I made use of memory breakpoints strategically placed at the address of the arrays to ...

Over the past 3 years, I have attended 3 SANS courses and participated in 3 NetWars events. I have won the challenge coin for every event I participated in. I hope this gives a bit more credibility to the tips that I am about to share. The SANS Challenge on the last day differs depending on the ...