Peter's Hacking Blog

I've got a mystery file to analyze. On the surface, it is just a non-threatening windows executable file. It's name is malware.exe Running it seemingly does nothing, except open a blank console

I recently presented the research regarding reversible computation that I've been working on with Dr. Aubert at the 22nd annual Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Research and Fine Arts Conference at

I recently went through the hard drive of my father's super old Dell Inspiron 531 computer that I used as a child. When going through it, I found old eclipse projects from late 2014/early 2015. This

What is reversible computing? At it's core, reversible computing is exactly as it sounds: computations that can be reversed. Think of a simple program that adds a to b. A reversible system would

Pandora was a fun box. I got to learn about SNMP exploitation and sqlmap. Scanning the box for open TCP ports reveals only port 80 and 22. Not too interesting, but i'll check out the website. After

I begin this htb like normal and scan for open ports. I see that 80 is open, so there's a web server. 135 and 445 are also open, so we know it also uses SMB. I also ran a gobuster in the background

It's been a while since I've touched HTB. I've been busy with work, school, research, and my personal life. I decided that with the start of the new semester, I might as well see if I can at least

I recently participated in a CTF hosted at BSides 2021 and completed a challenge I that I found pretty interesting, so I'm going to share it here. It's topic is malware reverse engineering. In this