This was my third “easy” box to own on HackTheBox. This box took me the longest so far. I really got hung up at privilege escalation (as you will see below). 1. Enumeration Before I do any enumeration, I edit my “/etc/hosts” file to add the IP of the machine. I named this box […]

  1. Enumeration I started enumeration by running a nmap scan against the server. The command I ran was “nmap -A -oA luke.htb luke.htb”. -A = enables additional advanced and aggressive options. Enables OS detection (-O), version scanning (-sV), script scanning (-sC) and traceroute (–traceroute) -oA luke.htb = this saves the scan to all three […]

1. Enumeration I started the enumeration of this box the same as I have others, with an nmap scan. The scan I ran was very standard, “nmap -A -oA bastion.htb bastion.htb”. -A = enables additional advanced and aggressive options. Enables OS detection (-O), version scanning (-sV), script scanning (-sC) and traceroute (–traceroute) -oA bastion.htb = […]