Throwback Network - TryHackMe Writeup

Multi-host enterprise Active Directory forest simulation with firewall pivots and domain trust exploitation.

🖥️ Challenge / Machine Info

  • Platform: tryhackme
  • Name / Title: throwback-network
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Target OS / Environment: Network
  • Key Vulnerability Focus: Corporate network emulation / pivoting

Walkthrough Summary

  1. Phishing & Initial Access: Compromising a public-facing workstation.
  2. Internal Pivoting: Deploying reverse tunnels and pivot agents to scan the internal corporate domain.
  3. Active Directory Takeover: Exploiting weak group policies (GPP) and DCSync rights to compromise the child and forest root domains.