Hack The Box — Poison Writeup w/o Metasploit

This is the 21st 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 10.10.10.84

• -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 22: running OpenSSH 7.2
• Port 80: running Apache httpd 2.4.29

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-01-03 22:13 EST                                                                                                                
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.84                                                                                                                                               
Host is up (0.031s latency)…