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Privilege escalation is where Scrambled earns its name. The box introduces a misconfigured with unconstrained delegation enabled on a specific service. By forcing a domain admin (or a high-privileged service account) to authenticate to a machine you control, you can capture a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) and impersonate the user. This "scrambling" of ticket flow is a real-world attack known as Kerberos Unconstrained Delegation Abuse .

The initial foothold requires a sharp eye for . Unlike many boxes that hand you a password, Scrambled presents an anonymous bind opportunity. With a simple ldapsearch , you can dump user details, discovering a service account that lacks proper Kerberos pre-authentication. This is the first "scramble": the attacker must leverage AS-REP Roasting to crack a hash offline, revealing plaintext credentials for a low-privileged user. scrambled hackthebox

Finally, the root flag demands you to think beyond sudo -l . You'll need to manipulate and use tools like kinit and impacket to pass the ticket across the network, pivoting to a service that only accepts ticket-based authentication. Privilege escalation is where Scrambled earns its name