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THM - Logless Hunt

6 min readMay 7, 2025

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A writeup for the room “Logless Hunt” on TryHackMe

Detect every attack step on a Windows machine even after threat actors cleared Security logs.

Task 3 - Initial Access | Web Access Logs

What is the title of the HR01-SRV web app hosted on 80 port?

It is enough to visit the page from the machine to obtain the title of the web app.

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Which IP performed an extensive web scan on the HR01-SRV web app?

We can take a look at the access.log file of the Apache web server.

Get-Content C:\Apache24\logs\access.log
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We can notice many requests from the same IP to multiple destinations on the same path, but with different…

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Francesco Pastore
Francesco Pastore

Written by Francesco Pastore

Computer Science & Engineering Graduate | CEH | eJPT | Security+