I'm working on a talk for a conference and an aspect of my talk involves being anonymous.  I'd considered several ideas as to that initial step but ended up with a Raspberry Pi Tor Proxy to sit in front of my burner laptop.  That's just the beginning, of course, because there will be multiple layers but that's the direction of the talk and not the topic of this post.  This post is that initial platform of anonymity. 

When I looked around at examples for Pi proxies, I saw some older posts that were no longer valid and some newer posts that didn't exactly cover what I was trying to do.  Or perhaps my Googling wasn't good enough.  Regardless, I pieced some parts together and I got what I wanted.  To make this post complete, I'm starting from near the very beginning.  Pet projects aside, I not a frequent user of the Raspberry Pi so this will be as much a tutorial for me as for those who stumble upon this post. 

If you blink, there will be another privilege escalation script and as far as I can tell, they seem to be the work of people honing their skills with a particular language or platform.  As such, they tend to go without updating not long after they are produced.  On the Linux side, there is (was) a popular script, in Kali, unix-privesc-check from Pentest Monkey.  When you're working with old machines, this is a good one and one that I've used for many reasons.  First, it works a lot of the time.  Second, when it's finished, it lists kernel exploits. This is all great until you move into modern systems, then the script produces a whole lot of something without the glaring "use this to get root" at the end.  Then you're destined to hunt through the miles of information it provides. 

I sort of stumbled across Heist because I accidentally landed on a Reddit page that mentioned it.  Prior to that, I'd not heard of this box.  Granted, there are a lot of HTB boxes and I don't live on the platform.  It's not that I couldn't, I could.  It's very gamified and I'm drawn to that sort of thing but I also see it as a great time suck.  That being said, this box was mentioned in the same context with a box that I had rooted and I was curious about the parallel.  Spoiler, there wasn't any.  I think it was just a non sequitur but here I am and I'm not disappointed I ended up here.

We kick off with Nmap: