Fortress AWS – HTB Pro Lab (Teaser)

Status: ✅ Completed
Platform: Hack The Box – Pro Lab
Write-up: Redacted until/unless HTB allows public solutions (Pro Labs stay secret).

🧭 Overview

Fortress AWS is a tight cloud-first lab—IAM gotchas, priv-esc via policies/roles, and real-world SSM/S3 workflows that mirror production.

🧪 What I Can Share (No Spoilers)

• IAM misconfigs → privilege escalation
• SSM pivots, S3 data handling, and cloud persistence
• Guardrails vs mis-scoped permissions
• Least-privilege mindset in practice

🧠 Takeaways

• Read every policy—the diff matters
• Enumerate via CLI and console for full context
• Log trails tell the story; keep artifacts clean

🖼️ Proofs

FortressAWS: pwned.

HTB Pro Lab: Fortress AWS — Certificate of Completion

📌 Notes

No walkthrough here by design. If HTB ever green-lights public write-ups, I’ll publish a full breakdown with proper defensive countermeasures.

Author: inkedqt • Site: https://inksec.io