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Liam Smydo

Liam Smydo

Cybersecurity Enthusiast

Hi, I’m Liam. This site contains my various cybersecurity projects, CTF write-ups, and labs, including detailed technical write-ups and different resources I find useful. Below, you’ll find some of my recent projects and CTF write-ups.

Recent

TryHackMe: RabbitStore

·1537 words·8 mins
A medium TryHackMe box chaining mass assignment, SSRF, and Jinja2 SSTI to gain initial access, then escalating to root by leveraging an exposed Erlang cookie to extract credentials from a misconfigured RabbitMQ service.

TryHackMe: Hammer

·1795 words·9 mins
A Medium Rated PHP web app challenge chaining exposed logs, OTP brute force via rate limit bypass, and JWT forgery to achieve remote command execution

TryHackMe: Include

·1825 words·9 mins
Medium difficulty web challenge focusing on server side vulnerabilities

TryHackMe: K2-Summit

·2471 words·12 mins
Hard Active Directory box Leverage credential reuse for initial access, identify a privileged user via BloodHound, hijack a scheduled script for lateral movement, then perform an RBCD attack to compromise the root domain controller

TryHackMe: K2-MiddleCamp

·2615 words·13 mins
Hard Active Directory environment consisting of enumeration, credential spraying, BloodHound analysis, privilege escalation via Backup Operators group