Forest Hackthebox Walkthrough May 2026

john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt svc-alfresco.hash Seconds later—a crack. The password: s3rvice .

You recall that with AD credentials, you can use if the user is in the right group. But svc-alfresco is not. You check group membership using net rpc or ldapsearch : forest hackthebox walkthrough

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 . john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou

evil-winrm -i 10.10.10.161 -u svc-alfresco -p s3rvice Access denied—WinRM not open. But SMB is. You connect via smbclient and find nothing juicy. You need execution. But svc-alfresco is not

net rpc password "sebastian" -U "htb.local"/"svc-alfresco"%"s3rvice" -S forest.htb.local It asks for the new password. You set it to P@ssw0rd123! .

The forest is dark, but the path is always there. You just have to know which trees to knock on.