This repository tracks my weekly progress and learning as I prepare in cybersecurity and bug bounty.
Started: July 2025
I'm a third-year BSc CS student from Kerala,India. Preparing for a future in cybersecurity and bug bounty. This repo is my open learning-journal to stay consistent, build a portfolio, and reflect on growth.
Access my pentest write-ups here
| ⭕ Own 100 machines | ⭕ Own 50 machines | ⭕ Own 25 machines | ✅ Own 10 machines | ✅ Own 5 machines |
| ⭕ Holo | ⭕ Platinum | ✅ Ruby | ✅ Silver | ✅ Bronze |
| ⭕ Omnicient | ⭕ Guru | ⭕ Elite hacker | ⭕ Pro Hacker | ✅ Hacker |
| ⭕ 20 Challenges | ⭕ 10 Challenges | ⭕ 5 Real vuln | ✅ 1 Real vuln | ✅ Script Kiddie |
| ⭕ CPTS | ⭕ eJPT | ✅ ICCA | ⭕ 10 Writeups | ✅ 5 Writeups |
| ⭕ 50 CTFtime puzzles | ⭕ 20 CTFtime puzzles | ✅ 10 CTFtime puzzles | ✅ 5 CTFtime puzzles | ✅ 1 CTFtime puzzle |
| ✅ Complete Jet | ✅ 8 Jet flags | ✅ 4 Jet flags | ✅ 2 Jet flags | ✅ 1 Jet flag |
htb/— Writeups and notes of HTBlinkedin/— Notes of Linkedin coursesnotes/— Extra conceptsscripts/— Tools I build along the way
- ⌛ Resumed INE classes for eJPT
- 👾 Chaogen released
- ✅ Made this repo up-to-date, added vuln counter, and some other stuff
- ✅ Completed internship project RADAR SYSTEM
- ✅ Completed IoT Internship
- 👾 Chaogen release was scheduled
- 😭 Sony marked the report as Duplicate
- ✅ Opened an issue on a github security advisory
- ✅ Added my writeup on my htb team github
- ✅ Started internship project RADAR SYSTEM
- 👾 Tried pentesting my Sony TV
- ✅ Found a Vulnerability that allows hijacking media control and DoS in my TV
- ✅ Pwned Reactor from HTB
- ✅ Pwned the Uplink challenge in HTB
- 👾 Started IoT internship at Kannur University
- 🐣 Break due to sem exams
- 🐣 Started solving the JET fortress in HTB
- ✅ Completed some labs and courses in INE
- ✅ Pwned the Baby Time Capsule challenge in HTB
- ✅ Pwned the Suspicious Threat challenge in HTB
- ✅ Pwned the OpenSecret challenge in HTB
- ✅ Completed the JET fortress in HTB
- ✅ Rooted the HTB Seasonal Box: Kobold
- 🔥 Reached RUBY rank in HTB Seasonal
- ⌛ Took a break as model exams started.
- ⌛ Ripple got rejected by HTB
- ✅ Made enough changes to Ripple
- ✅ Ressubmitted Ripple
- ✅ Completed some problems on LeetCode
- ✅ Rooted the HTB Seasonal Box: CCTV
- 🐣 Resumed my learning on Stack-Based Buffer Overflow on HTB Academy
- 🐣 Made more connections
- 🌐 Applied for Internships through linkedin
- 🐣 Made my first Resume
- ✅ Learned about OS detection with TTL(Time-To-Live) [64-Linux,128-Windows]
- 🌐 Published the writeup of the HTB box Soulmate in medium
- 🌐 Posted about the writeup on Linkedin
- ✅ Updated my blog page on the writeup
- ✅ Updated my portfolio on my certificates
- 🐣 Took a session on How to Start Ethical Hacking in my college
- 🌐 Posted about task 1 in linkedin
- 🌐 Posted about task 2 in linkedin
- ✅ Submitted the internship tasks
- ✅ Completed the internship
- 🔥 Recieved internship completion cerificate
- ✅ Rooted the box WingData on HTB
- ⌛ Made writeup for the box WingData
- 🐣 Attended a session on Ethical Hacking and Bug Bounty
- 🌐 Made connections with some nice ppl in the field
- 🐣 Went on an Industrial Visit to UST Global
- ✅ Rooted the box Facts on HTB
- ✅ Rooted the box Pterodactyl on HTB
- 🌝 Became Silver rank in HTB Season 10
- 🐣 Rooted my old phone
- ✅ Rooted the box HackNet on HTB
- 🌐 Posted on Linkedin about the debugging competition
- ✅ Completed the task 1 of my internship
- ⌛ Started task 2 of my internship
- ✅ Completed the task 2 of my internship
- 🔥 Won first place on the Debugging competition held by INSPIRO 26, a national it fest.
- ⌛ Applied for internship at Future Interns
- ✅ Recieved 1 month internship offer letter from Future Interns
- ✅ Almost completed the Task-1 on the internship
- ⌛ Focused on academics because i was not paying enough attention to it.
- ✅ Completed the INE skill check lab Assessment Methodologies: Information Gathering CTF 1
- ✅ Completed the INE module Assessment Methodologies: Information Gathering
- ✅ Rooted the box Previous on HTB
- 🌐 Making a new blog to post my writeups and stuff
- 🔧 Remade the private repo for my portfolio and made updates
- 🔧 Made my own NAS server using Nextcloud on my old laptop
- 😷 Couldnt do much due to fever
- ✅ Completed and submitted Ripple
- ⌛ Started INE's eJPT learning path
- ✅ Rooted the box Conversor on HTB
- ❤️🔥 Passed ICCA yeahhh boiiii.... 🕺🏻🕺🏻
- 🌐 Posted about ICCA on linkedin
- 👾 Made my porfolio single-paged with react and vite
- 🐣 Pwned the new ReactOOPs challenge in HTB
- ✅ Almost completed Ripple
- 🔍 Started the ICCA course in INE
- 🌐 Posted about my responsive disclosure in LinkedIn
- ✅ Finished Sound the alarm: Detection and Response in the coursera path
- ✅ Finished Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security in the coursera path
- ✅ Finished Play it safe: Manage security risks in the coursera path
- ✅ Finished Put it to work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs in the coursera path
- 💆🏻♂️ Completed the Coursera Professional Certification path
- 📜 Got the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
- 👾 Rooted the HTB Box MonitorsFour
- 🌐 Posted about the certificate on LinkedIn
- 🌐 Posted about my experience with grub on linkedin
- 🤖 Working on Ripple
- 🚄 Started the Google Cybersecurity Proffessional certificate course in Coursera
- ✅ Finished Foundations of Cybersecurity in the course
- ✅ Finished Tools of Trade: Linux and SQL in the course
- ✅ Finished Automate Cybersecrity tasks with python in the course
- ✅ Finished Assets, Threats and Vulnerabilities in the course
- ✅ Finished Accelerate Job search with AI in the course
- ✅ Finished Introduction into Computers and OS in the Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst course
- 💆🏻♂️ Finally made the headless home server with my old laptop with no display and input
- 🧠 Still deciding on what to do with the home server
- 🦀 Posted about this repo in Linkedin
- 💸 Bought the ine's fundamentals annuals and started learning for eJPT
- 🐣 Sem exams are over yayy.. So back to track
- 💆🏻♂️ Decided to get some free time as relaxation period.
- 🤖 Started bulding a new HTB machine: Ripple.
- 🧱 Hit a wall on building my homelab due to unavailability of a lan to usb cable.
- 🐣 Sem exams
- 💽 Broke my old PC's bootloader
- 😅 Fixed the PC
- 🌐 Trying to make a home lab
- 🐣 Sem exams
- 🌐 Registered in pwn.college
- 🤞🏻 Made this repo public(Started to come out of the shell of fear)
- 🧗🏻♂️ Writeup of Artificial got accepted by HTB(yaay🕺🏻)
- 🐣 Locked in for sem exams(nov 4 - nov 17).
- 🤖 Published my writeup for the box Artificial
- 🌐 Submitted the writeup in HTB
- 🐣 Locked in for model exams(uty sem exams).
- 🐣 Locked in on academics till sem exams are over.
- 🎯 Did a few simple problems in Leetcode
- 📝 Decided to focus on academics as sem exam is near.
- 🧗🏻♂️ Rooted the medium HTB box Imagery
- 🐣 Did an OSINT challenge in HTB
- 🔥 Became Silver Rank in the new season
- 🥲 Made proper changes to Mutagen (hopefully)
- 📝 Made writeup for the HTB box Soulmate
- 🤞🏻 Submitted the challenge Mutagen once again
- 🤖 Started to do planning for Mutagen 2: Chaogen
- 👾 Completed the coding challenge Chaogen
- 🌐 Released the v2.16 of my portfolio
- 🤞🏻 Successfully installed a custom rom (DotOs) my old phone
- 🏫 Couldnt do much because of assignments and internal exams
- ✅ Owned the new box: Soulmate in HTB
- 📲 Tried to root my old phone
- 😎 Made the portflio page..(v1.81)
- 🥲 Both challenge submission got rejected.(But they said that "Mutagen" was a cool idea and to resubmit after some slight modifications)
- 🐣 Set up account on Medium to publish writeups.
- 🔥 Rooted the new season 9 box Expressway immediately on release
- 🧗🏻♂️ Became Bronze in the new season 9
- 👾 Became Hacker rank in HTB
- 🎯 Planning to do JET fortress in HTB
- 👾 Found a Vulnerablity in a State Govt site
- ✉️ Reported the vulnerability to the division concerned
- 🔥 Got an appreciation reply mail from them
- 😎 Reported the vulnerability found in week 6 ( Was scared to sent it then since it was a gov site.)
- 🧗🏻♂️ Rooted my second medium box from HTB: Environment
- 🧗🏻♂️ Rooted my first Medium box: Strutted
- 📝 Made writeup for the box Strutted
- 💬 Published and posted about the writeup on Linkedin
- 🔥 Solved 10 CTF challenges in PicoCTF
- 💻 Learned about xfreerdp from HTB academy
- 👾 Rooted the box 2million from HTB
- ⛓️💥 Completed the challenge WebVault Time Machine Investigation
- 🤒 Couldnt do much because of health issues.
- 👾 HTB: Rooted the box Codetwo
- ✅ HTB: Rooted the box Artificial
- 💻 Made a writeup for the HTB box Artificial (Will publish when the box retire)
- 😎 Owned CubeMadness1 challlenge in HTB
- 🔥 Owned The Suspicious Domain Challenge in HTB
- 🛠️ Made a writeup for the HTB box Editor
- 🤒 Couldnt do much because of health issues.
- ✅ Completed 3 challenges on HTB
- 🤖 HTB: Owned the box Code
- 💻 Started completing all the free starting point boxes
- 🔥 HTB: Completed all free boxes in starting point tier 0 and tier 1
- 🏆 Rooted the VM Jangow01 from vulnhub
- 📈 Published 2nd writeup (Jangow01)
- 🔹 Setup account for Picoctf
- 👾 Did my first CTF challenge: DISKO1
- 🧠 Learned about jinja2 RCE in template injections
- 💬 Solved 5 easy CTF Challenges in PicoCtf
- 🏆 Became
Silver tierin HTB Season-8 - ✅ HTB: Owned the editor box of season 8
- 🔹 Started the linux Stack-based buffer overflow module in HTB
- 💡 Learned about stack overflows and exploit ways.
- 🔥 Found a possible vulnerability in a State-wide gov site
- 📈 Completed the PinSmith coding-challenge on HTB.
- 🤯 1 box hacking in progress.
- 💬 Joined a team and made friends in HTB
- ✅ Completed the module File Transfer
- 💡 Learned basic methods of File transfer while pentesting
- 💡 Learned basic SMB methods
- 🔥 Completed my first solo vuln-box Me and My Girlfriend 1
- 🔹 Wrote my first writeup
- 📈 Started another repo for publishing box writeups.
- 💬 Posted about the writeup on linkedin
- ⛓️ Made a Blueprint for a Hard HTB Coding-Challenge
- 💻 Made a basic Under Construction Portfolio (available above).
- 🔹 Continuing the module File transfer in HTB
- 🛠️ Submitted a Medium Coding-Challenge on HTB
- 🤷🏻♂️ The Linkedin path got cancelled and when I asked around, heard that it was some issues btwn linkedin and KDISC
- 🏆 Became
Bronze tierin HTB Season-8 - 🔥 Promoted to
Script-Kiddierank in HTB - ✅ HTB: Owned 2 systems and 3 challenges
- 💡 Learned basic methods of penetrating into a system
- 🔹 Started the module File transfer in HTB
- 🛠️ Submitted an Easy Coding-Challenge on HTB
- 💻 Started working on a Medium Coding-Challenge
- ⛓️ Started making upgrades to AutoFn
- 🔹 Started the LinkedIn Course: Metasploit Essential Training by Liam Cleary
- 🛠️ Built "AutoFn", an automatic scanner
- ✅ Completed my first machine "Nibbles"
- 📈 Completed my first sherlock "Brutus"
- ✅ HTB: Completed the path "Cracking into HackTheBox"
- 💡 Learned basics of pentesting and metasploit
- ✅ Started the linkedin learning path: Penetration Testing Intern from KDISC
- ✅ Completed LinkedIn Course: Leveraging AI for Pentesting by Tennisha Martin
- 💡 Learned how LLMs (like ChatGPT) can assist with recon, payloads, and automation
- 🧠 Discovered tools like HackingBuggyGPT and use cases for AI in scripting