HackTheBox - Perfection

00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Start of nmap
02:50 - Discovering the Weighted Grade Calculator which we will exploit
04:50 - Using FFUF to enumerate all bad characters and discovering we can't send any symbols
07:10 - Quick bash one liner with JQ to URL Encode each line of our wordlist
09:30 - Discovering a New Line character breaks the search for Bad Characters, then getting a shell on the box
14:40 - Shell returned, looking at the source code and seeing the "Bad Character" filter was really a regex whitelist
18:50 - Discovering mail that says the password format in the database
21:50 - Using hashcat Bruteforce mode to crack the password

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