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@verdienansein said:
… just craft your own payload manually …+1. If you don’t know how to make one manually it’s basically mandatory to build it from scratch. Never use a public exploit for something you haven’t already done yourself a hundred times. That is how you learn, and what separates the hackers from the skids
Well said. This box is a monster if you aren’t able to rely on some of your own prior knowledge and capabilities. That being said, if you are a “newbie” and looking to give this box a try, I highly recommend looking into payload generation and python scripting. It will serve you wonders in the long run.
do you have any good resources for this?
There are tons of blogs and git repos about using Python for hackery things, and also books like Black Hat Python etc. However, you should 100% stay away from those in the beginning 
Go through the tutorial on python.org, learn the basics, play around with the socket and os modules, and build some small snippets that automates your basic hacktivities. The reason I’m saying this is because if you start out using pwntools and impacket etc you’ll be handicapping yourself severely letting them hide the internals 
And for payloads, if talking macros specifically, the necessary skill isn’t how to build a type of macro that runs code, but how to read developer documentation on company websites 