Hack The Box Silentium Stats (Easy Linux)
HTB Silentium: retired easy Linux box, 4.3/5 from 472 reviews, 12,083 user owns. Final stats, difficulty read and prep. Spoiler-free, no flags.
Silentium was an active Hack The Box machine, an easy Linux box by 7u9y, released 2026-04-11 in Season 10, worth 20 points and 450 XP. It retired after roughly five months live, so what follows is the final data and an honest read of the difficulty. No chain, no flags, no spoilers.
HTB Silentium at a glance
| Machine ID | 867 |
| Difficulty | Easy (20 pts / 450 XP) |
| OS | Linux |
| Released | 2026-04-11 (Season 10) |
| Status | retired, between 2026-09-10 and 2026-09-20 |
| Maker | 7u9y |
| Rating | 4.3 / 5 from 472 reviews |
| User owns | 12,083 |
| Root owns | 10,453 |
| User → root drop | 13.5% |
| User blood | 14m 18s by ahos6 |
| Root blood | 25m 49s by artex |
Community difficulty votes:
| Bucket | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | 3,104 | 35.2% |
| Too Easy | 2,561 | 29.1% |
| Medium | 1,170 | 13.3% |
| Very Easy | 660 | 7.5% |
| Cake | 409 | 4.6% |
Total votes: 8,810.
Is HTB Silentium hard?
Silentium finished as one of the busiest boxes on the board, with 12,083 user owns and 472 reviews averaging 4.3. Only Reactor and Connected drew a bigger crowd. Easy boxes with a strong rating pull that kind of traffic.
The votes agreed with the label: 3,104 Easy and 2,561 Too Easy out of 8,810, with only 1,170 arguing for Medium. Roughly 76% called it Easy or lighter.
The one number worth pausing on is the 13.5% user-to-root drop, 12,083 user against 10,453 root. That is wide for an Easy box, where the two counts normally sit within a few percent. Combined with the bloods (ahos6 at 14m18s for user, artex at 25m49s for root, different players eleven minutes apart), it says the privesc is a real second step rather than a victory lap.
It was a good first Linux box, and 450 XP for it. Just do not assume you are done at user.txt.
What to have ready for Silentium
- Full TCP sweep first:
nmap -p- --min-rate 2000then a targeted-sC -sVon what answers. Easy boxes still hide the point of entry on a high port. - Add the hostname to
/etc/hoststhe moment you see a redirect. Half the failed Easy attempts are people scanning an IP that only serves a vhost. - Vhost and content discovery in parallel:
ffufwith a subdomain wordlist againstHost:, andferoxbusterfor paths, with extensions matched to whatever the stack turns out to be. - Read the source of every page you land on. Comments, JS bundles and
.gitleftovers carry more Easy footholds than any exploit does. - For privesc:
sudo -lbefore anything else, thenlinpeas, then SUID, capabilities, cron and writable service files, in that order.
When the Silentium writeup lands
We publish full chains after a box retires, never while it’s active, and we don’t hand them to anyone outside the team. Silentium has retired, so the chain is clear to publish and the writeup goes up in the same format as the HTB Down one.
If you’d rather not wait, the team’s internal notes go out in our Discord first. That’s also where people work through active boxes together, which is the part you’re actually allowed to do while Silentium is still live.
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