Hack The Box Archive
Hard machines. Advanced attack paths.
This archive is reserved for retired Hard machines and challenges requiring deeper enumeration, chained exploitation, and complex privilege-escalation paths.
Archive notes: Active boxes and challenges are not published. Writeups posted after March 6, 2021 use exported pentest.ws PDFs instead of CherryTree files. Since April 6, 2023, new writeups also include video walkthroughs.
Retired boxes
Hard machine library
No Hard machine writeups have been published yet.
Archive status: The Hard machine library is ready for future writeups. New retired machines will appear here as they are completed and published.
Standalone exercises
Hard challenges
The category structure is in place for future challenge writeups.
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