Hack the Box — Passage
10 min readMar 6, 2021
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This box was presented at the at the Hack The Box Ottawa October Meetup by David. The presentation has been recorded and will be posted on the Hack the Box Ottawa YouTube channel.
Let’s get started!
Reconnaissance
Run an nmap scan that scans all ports.
sudo nmap -sC -sV -O -p- -oA nmap/nmap 10.10.10.206
We get the following result.
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PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 17:eb:9e:23:ea:23:b6:b1:bc:c6:4f:db:98:d3:d4:a1 (RSA)
| ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDVnCUEEK8NK4naCBGc9im6v6c67d5w/z/i72QIXW9JPJ6bv/rdc45FOdiOSovmWW6onhKbdUje+8NKX1LvHIiotFhc66Jih+AW8aeK6pIsywDxtoUwBcKcaPkVFIiFUZ3UWOsWMi+qYTFGg2DEi3OHHWSMSPzVTh+YIsCzkRCHwcecTBNipHK645LwdaBLESJBUieIwuIh8icoESGaNcirD/DkJjjQ3xKSc4nbMnD7D6C1tIgF9TGZadvQNqMgSmJJRFk/hVeA/PReo4Z+WrWTvPuFiTFr8RW+yY/nHWrG6LfldCUwpz0jj/kDFGUDYHLBEN7nsFZx4boP8+p52D8F
| 256 71:64:51:50:c3:7f:18:47:03:98:3e:5e:b8:10:19:fc (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBCdB2wKcMmurynbHuHifOk3OGwNcZ1/7kTJM67u+Cm/6np9tRhyFrjnhcsmydEtLwGiiY5+tUjr2qeTLsrgvzsY=
| 256 fd:56:2a:f8:d0:60:a7:f1:a0:a1:47:a4:38:d6:a8:a1 (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGRIhMr/zUartoStYphvYD6kVzr7TDo+gIQfS2WwhSBd
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu))
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Passage News
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We have two ports open.
- Port 22: running OpenSSH 7.2p2
- Port 80: running Apache httpd 2.4.18
Before we move on to enumeration, let’s make some mental notes about the scan results.
- The OpenSSH version that is running on port 22 is not associated with any critical vulnerabilities, so it’s unlikely that we gain initial access through this port, unless we find credentials.
- Ports 80 is running a web server, so we’ll perform our standard enumeration techniques on it.
Enumeration
We start off with enumerating HTTP. Visit the application in the browser.