Hack The Box — Sense Writeup w/o Metasploit

This is the 18th 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

First thing first, we run a quick initial nmap scan to see which ports are open and which services are running on those ports.

nmap -sC -sV -O -oA initial 10.10.10.60

• -sC: run default nmap scripts
• -sV: detect service version
• -O: detect OS
• -oA: output all formats and store in file initial

We get back the following result showing that 2 ports are open:

• Port 80: running lighttpd 1.4.35 over HTTP
• Port 443: running lighttpd 1.4.35 over HTTPS

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-12-28 23:29 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.60
Host is up (0.034s latency).
Not shown: 998 filtered ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE    VERSION
80/tcp  open  http       lighttpd 1.4.35
|_http-server-header: lighttpd/1.4.35
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to https://10.10.10.60/
|_https-redirect: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug)
443/tcp open  ssl/https…