Forest Hackthebox Walkthrough !link! Jun 2026

And you’re in. A Windows PowerShell console on FOREST . The user flag is waiting in C:\Users\sebastian\Desktop\user.txt .

Now copy ntds.dit and SYSTEM hive:

GetNPUsers.py htb.local/ -dc-ip 10.10.10.161 -no-pass -usersfile users.txt forest hackthebox walkthrough

Now you’re in the forest, but not yet to the throne. You try evil-winrm :

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 . And you’re in

A full scan reveals common AD ports like 88 (Kerberos), 135 (RPC), 389 (LDAP), and 445 (SMB). LDAP Enumeration: Use tools like scripts or enum4linux-ng to extract the domain name (e.g., ) and a list of valid users. You can also use with a null session to query the server for user accounts. Phase 2: Initial Access (AS-REP Roasting)

You log out, clear your hashes, and take a breath. The Forest machine wasn't about kernel exploits or buffer overflows. It was about patience—listening to LDAP, cracking a service account, climbing the group hierarchy, and resetting a single password to reach the crown. Now copy ntds

Now read the root.txt flag:

And you’re at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\root.txt . The final flag.

net rpc password "sebastian" -U "htb.local"/"svc-alfresco"%"s3rvice" -S forest.htb.local