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This is my write-up for the Zipping machine on Hack The Box platform. Part one: User Reconnaissance Begin with a nmap scan to find open ports. command: -Pn for skipping Host Discovery -sS for TCP Sync Scan used to make the scanning faster and stealthier. sudo nmap -Pn -sS 10.10.11.229 [sudo] password for dudisam: Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-07 23:43 IDT Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.229 Host is up (0....

Emdee five for life is a bit old and easy challenge but still useful to earn some scripting skills. In short: the challenge serve a website which tells you to md5 encrypt the given string. Although it seems easy, when you submit the hash the website responses “too slow!”. So in order to make it fast you’ll need to use kind of automation to scrape the string, compute his MD5 hash and submit it....

Access machine is running FTP which has password protected zip file that eventually lead to the telnet credentials. The machine has Administrator stored credentials that leads then to Privilege Escalation. Part one: User Reconnaissance Begin with a nmap scan to find open ports. command: -sC for default scripts -sV for enumerate versions -oNto save in the scan in normal format nmap -sC -sV -oN access 10.10.10.98 Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap....