Hack The Box — Grandpa Writeup w/ Metasploit
8 min readFeb 19, 2020
This is the 35th blog out of a series of blogs I will be publishing on retired HTB machines in preparation for the OSCP. The full list of OSCP like machines compiled by TJ_Null can be found here.
Let’s get started!
Reconnaissance
Run the nmapAutomator script to enumerate open ports and services running on those ports.
./nmapAutomator.sh 10.10.10.14 All- All: Runs all the scans consecutively.
We get back the following result.
Running all scans on 10.10.10.14Host is likely running Windows---------------------Starting Nmap Quick Scan---------------------Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-02-17 15:29 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.14
Host is up (0.043s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered ports
Some closed ports may be reported as filtered due to --defeat-rst-ratelimit
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open httpNmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.19 seconds---------------------Starting Nmap Basic Scan---------------------Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-02-17 15:29 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.14
Host is up (0.037s…
