Hack The Box — Safe Writeup w/o Metasploit
14 min readMar 14, 2020
This is the 46th 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 10.10.10.147 All- All: Runs all the scans consecutively.
We get back the following result.
Running all scans on 10.10.10.147Host is likely running Linux---------------------Starting Nmap Quick Scan---------------------Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-02-08 12:56 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.147
Host is up (0.037s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http…
