VHL 10.1x.1.83 — John

Beginner Box. This one is too easy. We’ll start with the scan.

Nmap Scan Results

There is only two services running: SMB and RDP. Given that it’s a Windows XP box, it probably has more than a few holes. Given how widespread vulnerability of Windows machines to certain SMB exploits (*cough* EternalBlue *cough*) we’ll try that first.

Success

And Voila! Nothing worth writing home about, but hopefully this can help a few aspiring red teamers early in their journey.