I believe most if not all know of the popularity of Hack the Box, it’s such an amazing learning platform and I would suggest everyone interested in the cybersecurity field to obtain a subscription and tackle some of these boxes.

From personal experience, I delved into HTB when I was just starting to become a programmer, I remember when you had to hack your way inside in order to create an account. Thankfully, nowadays all you need is to sign in with an email!

In mid 2025 I started to take HTB a lot more seriously and focused on the HTB Academy, various lessons were very well presented and worth the price. It was quite intimidating actually putting in the work and time to try and figure out most of the answers to the questions asked. What made me realize it’s value was when I could actually implement what I learned in real life. What was theory was something I could start to see in my work environment, there were systems I understood a lot easier and could diagnose a lot better thanks to the lessons learned.

My real focus isn’t really on the red-teaming, although I know how eye catching such a title is. I’m more interested in the Blue Team aspect of HTB.

One very new way HTB has brough Blue Teaming into the light is through their Sherlocks, which can be thought of puzzles to solve in order to identify, diagnose, and determine the reasoning behind an intrusion and it’s effects on a system.

To make this blog post more interesting and to show my commitment and prove to myself that this is something I have an actual interest in, I have committed myself to completing all the very easy DFIR sherlocks.

With this achievement completed, this blog will focus on the easy Sherlocks provided by HTB. This is to create an interest for those who are curious about data forensics and for those who may already be more advanced and might provide more insights into how to resolve some of these challenges more efficiently.

For HTB enjoyers, as we all know, easy, isn’t always easy. I’ve been online and have heard various people struggle with various challenges provided by HTB. My commitment is to provide and share my experience and journey through these challenges and hope you may find some enjoyment in my methodology, however crude it might seem at the start.