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Pytho.

Security research and bug bounty.
This is where I keep my Hack The Box writeups.

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What lives here.

I'm Pytho. I practice security research and bug bounty. Here I publish routes through Hack The Box machines and keep links to my profiles, certificates and PGP key.

11published writeups
03platform profiles
01certificate held

Certificates.

The one I've earned, and the one I'm working towards.

CompTIA Security+ certificate
CompTIA Security+Held / verified
HTB CPTSIn progress

Writeups.

Full routes through Hack The Box machines. Newest first.

01 Authority HTB: Ansible vault secrets on a guest SMB share, a PWM instance in configuration mode that hands over an LDAP bind in cleartext, and ESC1 through a machine account we add ourselves. htb 02 Voleur HTB: Kerberos-only auth, a cracked Excel sheet leaking service account passwords, targeted Kerberoasting, a restored deleted user whose DPAPI credentials unlock the next account, and an NTDS backup reached through WSL. htb 03 Pov HTB: an LFI on an ASP.NET file parameter leaks web.config and its machine keys, a ViewState deserialization gives RCE, a saved PSCredential unlocks the next user, and SeDebugPrivilege gets migrated into a SYSTEM process. htb 04 Postman HTB: an unauthenticated Redis lets me write an SSH key for RCE as redis, linpeas finds Matt's encrypted id_rsa which cracks to a password, then a Webmin 1.910 packageup RCE gives root. htb 05 Trick HTB: a DNS zone transfer leaks a payroll vhost, SQL injection with FILE privilege reads files off disk, then LFI plus Nginx log poisoning on a second vhost gives a shell as michael, and a sudo fail2ban action hijack finishes it as root. htb 06 Jeeves HTB: an unauthenticated Jenkins Script Console for RCE, then SeImpersonatePrivilege into SYSTEM with JuicyPotato, and a root flag hidden in an alternate data stream. htb 07 TombWatcher HTB: targeted Kerberoasting, a gMSA password read, WriteOwner abuse and a resurrected cert_admin for ADCS ESC15. htb 08 Media HTB: an .asx playlist that leaks an NTLM hash, a directory junction into the web root, and GodPotato. htb 09 Administrator HTB: a password reset chain, a Password Safe backup over FTP, Kerberoasting and DCSync. htb 10 Fluffy HTB: SMB write access, CVE-2025-24071, shadow credentials and ADCS ESC16. htb 11 Hello World My first post :) notes

Elsewhere.

My profiles on security platforms.

Send a message.

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PGP public keyEncrypted contact

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Fingerprint
9524 4C9B 78A5 2294 2AD2 7BBE 8B59 4AA5 A772 713D
Algorithm
rsa3072
Valid
2026-07-09 → 2027-07-09
curl -s https://pytho0.day/pgp.asc | gpg --import
download .asc
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