Hack The Box is an online platform that hosts virtual machines that are vulnerable by design to sharpen one’s penetration testing and security skills. Valentine was a fun machine to compromise as it suffers from a very well-known vulnerability. In addition to this well-known vulnerability one needs several other puzzle pieces to gain root access. This makes the Valentine machine an interesting learning experience. Tools Used Nmap Firefox Gobuster Base64 and Hex en- and decoding Searchsploit...
