Just to clarify a couple of things: 1. This is in no way meant to be an exhaustive list of everything you'll ever need on a Windows machine. Its just everything I've used so far in my time on HTB. 2. This isn't the video I was talking about previously when I said I'd be making one that walks through me making a VM for HTB. That video will be me making a VM for other people on HTB to attack, but won't be out for a while as it will need to wait for the machine to be retired from HTB.
About Visual Studio Code, I guess it all comes down to security people not being devs and not needing a big IDE where you have to create a project to do anything.
Awesome videos!! Really appreciate your knowledge and the in depth explanations. If I ever get to your level I will be very happy!! Currently, I'm a full time student but having videos like these help me stay focused and gives me a gauge in what I should be learning. Thank you.
I think Commando VM from FireEye would suit you. Although there may be a lot of tools which you won't need since you like a minimalistic approach 🙂 loved your HTB Windows btw. Solved all of them and it made me relate to "VbScrub" a little 😅
@@vbscrub yeah! Even I half of the tools don't know where to use them. Can't wait for your next box in HTB or the video where you show how you created one.
this was seriously an awesome video, and also tbh I would really love to know which keyboard you were using , those clicky sounds were so much pleasure to hear
Thank you for another great video! I am also big fan of hotkeys and commands for Win+R and I have some tips for you: 1. System properties: sysdm.cpl 2. Install RSAT from PowerShell: Get-WindowsCapability -Online -Name "*RSAT*" | foreach {Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name $_.Name} 3. Windows features: optionalfeatures :) And i have some questions: Do you have any Linux experience? Especially with Kali? Do you try to hack any Linux box on HTB? If no, then why? I don`t want to argue with you about best OS, tools, etc. Just want to know you opinion about that :) Thank you!
Thanks for the tips! and no I don't have any experience with Linux. I've just never had a reason to use it. 90% of machines in business environments are Windows, so that's what I've always been using and supporting
Just VMWare Workstation. I was using a really old version for ages but just upgraded to the latest one. Can't say I noticed any difference though in terms of performance. I'd assume the host PC specs make much more of a difference to how smooth of an experience you have with a VM. I'm on a fairly old PC though, specs are: Intel i5 2500K 3.3Ghz, 16 GB RAM, GTX 670
just looked and I built this thing in 2011 lol time flies. Only change I've made since then was upgrading the graphics card a few years ago to that GTX670 as it was spare after I upgraded my gaming PC
Wow, nice. I'm having some problems with my Thinkpad E590. i7-8565U, 16GB RAM and RX 550 X using VMWare. Good to know it is not an hypervisor issue! Maybe a drivers thing... I'll give a try to Hyper-V
@@raulsanchez8279 I'm not too familiar with laptop tech these days but I'd guess the graphics card probably lets them down a bit for VMs. Idk maybe they've improved a lot since I last looked into it a few years ago, but I wouldn't even try to run a VM on my laptop. Despite being bought just a couple of years ago and having half decent specs on paper, it still seems slow as hell compared to my 9 year old desktop
Awesome video. In the line of network adapters on your VM on VMware workstation is your network adapter NAT, Bridged what is the best way to protect the host when doing HTB labs ?
Wanted to add, for the SMB Share, You Need to do this as well: changed Network access: Sharing and security model for local account from “Classic-local users authenticate as themselves” to “Guest only-local users authenticate as Guest"
@@vbscrub Hey VbScrub maybe you can help me, my physical machine with 192.168.1.X can get to the SMB share with anonymous login to the windows vm \\192.168.133.x\shared\1.txt . But when running it on the sniper machine doing \\10.10.14.X\shared\1.txt doesnt result nothing, Do you know Why?
Yeah I'll be making that very soon but like I said it wont be released for ages because it will have to wait until the machine that I make is retired from hack the box (usually takes a couple of months for it to even be accepted and queued up, then a few more months of it being in use, then its retired)
Is it possible to not worry about the expiration date of the evaluation or do I need to buy one? As I am making a VM that will be saved as an .ova file for local use.
@@vbscrub Yes it's came with tools i often use pre-installed like Covenant C2 framework and nearly all tools i always using for active directory, also it has choco package installer like apt-get in linux so i don't bother googling for a tool and reading its installing instructions, it comes in handy and make life easier
because I only attack windows machines, and so far I'm yet to see a single advantage to doing that from a linux machine. I'm already very familiar with Windows, so why go learn a whole new OS just to do stuff I can already do more easily from Windows? In all the HTB machines I've done, I haven't come across anything that was harder or impossible to do from Windows. It seems like a lot of people just think you have to use Linux, but when you ask them why... they never give any actual reasons. If you have some examples of what is easier to do from Linux (when attacking Windows machines) then please let me know :)
@@vbscrub You never do any linux stuff? I'm sure it all depends on familiarity, and maybe I've become used to linux, but why does it have to be so difficult to set up stuff on windows?
