Meow Tier 0 HTB Starting Point

  Hello everyone in this blog we are going to PWN the easiest machine   in HackTheBox

First we need to connect to the Starting point VPN and spawn the machine

getting the IP address of the machine

The IP address is 10.129.129.206. Next, check the connection to the machine using PING.

ping -c 4 10.129.129.206

Now we will use the tool Nmap to scan the open ports and services on the IP address

So What’s Nmap?

nmap stands for Network Mapper, and it will send requests to the target’s ports in hopes of receiving a reply, thus determining if the said port is open or not. Some ports are used by default by certain services.

nmap -sV 10.129.129.206

We will be using the service detection flag -sV to determine the name and description of the identified services.

Nmap Scan Results

As we can see from the scan results that Port 23 is Open which has telnet running on it

We can try to connect to it using the telnet command line utility in Linux, On connecting a Login Pops Up

Now we can try some common logins Like Admin, root etc.

The username root worked and there was no password prompt. Now you can use cat flag.txt to get the flag

flag for the machine

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Now Finally submit the flag you got

And The Machine Has Been Pwned!!