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Cap — HackTheBox Writeup: Easy Machine Walkthrough

Karthikeyan Nagaraj
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4 min readNov 19, 2024

Phases…

  1. Scanning
  2. Enumeration
  3. Gaining Access
  4. Privilege Escalation

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Scanning

└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.10.10.245    
Starting Nmap 7.94SVN ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-11-18 16:33 IST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.245
Host is up (0.28s latency).
Not shown: 997 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open ftp vsftpd 3.0.3
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.2 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 fa:80:a9:b2:ca:3b:88:69:a4:28:9e:39:0d:27:d5:75 (RSA)
| 256 96:d8:f8:e3:e8:f7:71:36:c5:49:d5:9d:b6:a4:c9:0c (ECDSA)
|_ 256 3f:d0:ff:91:eb:3b:f6:e1:9f:2e:8d:de:b3:de:b2:18 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http gunicorn
|_http-title: Security Dashboard
|_http-server-header: gunicorn
| fingerprint-strings:
| GetRequest:
| HTTP/1.0 200 OK
| Server: gunicorn
| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:04:24 GMT
| Connection: close
| Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
| Content-Length: 19386
| <!DOCTYPE html>
| <html class="no-js" lang="en">
| <head>
| <meta charset="utf-8">
| <meta

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Written by Karthikeyan Nagaraj

Entrepreneur | Writer | Cyber Security Consultant | AI Researcher TopMate - https://topmate.io/cyberw1ng

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