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Hack The Box — Hawk Writeup w/o Metasploit
14 min readJan 25, 2020
This is the 28th 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 10.10.10.102 All- All: Runs all the scans consecutively.
We get back the following result.
Running all scans on 10.10.10.102Host is likely running Linux---------------------Starting Nmap Quick Scan---------------------Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-01-24 14:52 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.102
Host is up (0.039s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
8082/tcp open blackice-alertsNmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.78 seconds---------------------Starting Nmap Basic Scan---------------------Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-01-24 14:52 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.102
Host is up (0.031s…
