A walkthrough of TryHackMe’s “Packed Light” — Easy, 60 points, Forensics category — from the Hacker Holidays event at the Byte Lotus Hotel.

Four rooms into TryHackMe’s Hacker Holidays, and this is the first one that sent me back to my own notes. Room 4 dropped me into digital…

Introduction

The scenario

It’s the last day of Hacker Holidays 2026! Though I’m sad to pack up and head home from the Byte Lotus, I sure learned a lot. Here’s to one…

1 · The Begins

🚨 It’s 2 a.m. Your SOC gets an alert. A laptop in your Singapore office is beaconing to a flagged malicious IP — and the employee who owns…

Malware was hiding inside the Windows Management database. We extracted it string by string, decompressed it layer by layer and decompiled…

Hacker Holidays 2026 — Day 14 Category: Forensics | Difficulty: Hard

scriptCTF Writeups 2026 Writeups for Geo-Osint, Forsenics, and MISC challenges in cybersecurity.