CTF Writeup: The Phishing Pond

Catch the phish before the phish catches you. Introduction Back to a brand new (at the time of writing) TryHackMe room. There’s been a trend of Phishing related challenges lately on this blog. Being able to recognize phishing emails, and analyze the process of what happens when a phishing link is clicked is an important tool to have as an analyst. This challenge room is Easy. The information given is rather introductory as well, which is nice to see if you’re still starting out using THM. ...

October 21, 2025 · 12 min · 2483 words · Ligniform

CTF Writeup: Confidential

We got our hands on a confidential case file from some self-declared “black hat hackers”… it looks like they have a secret invite code. Exciting introduction. Continuing on my recent binge of blue-team focused rooms, I’ll be doing the Confidential room today. From the looks of it this seems to be a very easy room. No need to get root access or run any nmap scans. In fact we don’t need to use any security-specific tools at all! ...

October 5, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Ligniform

CTF Writeup: Invite Only

Extract insight from a set of flagged artefacts, and distil the information into usable threat intelligence. Back to TryHackMe once again! This time I’ll be focusing on a Blue-Team heavy challenge room - Invite Only. I’ve been trying to target more threat-hunting and defensive challenges lately, so this should be fun! As per the description of the room above it doesn’t seem like we’ll need to be doing any red-team activities, so this should be fairly straightforward! ...

August 13, 2025 · 9 min · 1818 words · Ligniform