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HackTheBox Mirage Writeup

A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Mirage' machine which is medium rated windows box. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.

RECONNAISSANCE

NMAP

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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/mirage]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.236.128
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-07-21 08:17 EDT
Stats: 0:00:33 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Service Scan
Service scan Timing: About 85.71% done; ETC: 08:18 (0:00:05 remaining)
Stats: 0:01:09 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Script Scan
NSE Timing: About 98.52% done; ETC: 08:18 (0:00:00 remaining)
Nmap scan report for 10.129.236.128
Host is up (0.16s latency).
Not shown: 986 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT     STATE SERVICE       VERSION
53/tcp   open  domain        Simple DNS Plus
88/tcp   open  kerberos-sec  Microsoft Windows Kerberos (server time: 2025-07-21 19:17:36Z)
111/tcp  open  rpcbind       2-4 (RPC #100000)
| rpcinfo:
|   program version    port/proto  service
|   100000  2,3,4        111/tcp   rpcbind
|   100000  2,3,4        111/tcp6  rpcbind
|   100000  2,3,4        111/udp   rpcbind
|   100000  2,3,4        111/udp6  rpcbind
|   100003  2,3         2049/udp   nfs
|   100003  2,3         2049/udp6  nfs
|   100003  2,3,4       2049/tcp   nfs
|   100003  2,3,4       2049/tcp6  nfs
|   100005  1,2,3       2049/tcp   mountd
|   100005  1,2,3       2049/tcp6  mountd
|   100005  1,2,3       2049/udp   mountd
|   100005  1,2,3       2049/udp6  mountd
|   100021  1,2,3,4     2049/tcp   nlockmgr
|   100021  1,2,3,4     2049/tcp6  nlockmgr
|   100021  1,2,3,4     2049/udp   nlockmgr
|   100021  1,2,3,4     2049/udp6  nlockmgr
|   100024  1           2049/tcp   status
|   100024  1           2049/tcp6  status
|   100024  1           2049/udp   status
|_  100024  1           2049/udp6  status
135/tcp  open  msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn   Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
389/tcp  open  ldap          Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP (Domain: mirage.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
| ssl-cert: Subject:
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:dc01.mirage.htb, DNS:mirage.htb, DNS:MIRAGE
| Not valid before: 2025-07-04T19:58:41
|_Not valid after:  2105-07-04T19:58:41
445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds?
464/tcp  open  kpasswd5?
593/tcp  open  ncacn_http    Microsoft Windows RPC over HTTP 1.0
636/tcp  open  ssl/ldap      Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP (Domain: mirage.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
| ssl-cert: Subject:
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:dc01.mirage.htb, DNS:mirage.htb, DNS:MIRAGE
| Not valid before: 2025-07-04T19:58:41
|_Not valid after:  2105-07-04T19:58:41
2049/tcp open  nlockmgr      1-4 (RPC #100021)
3268/tcp open  ldap          Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP (Domain: mirage.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
| ssl-cert: Subject:
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:dc01.mirage.htb, DNS:mirage.htb, DNS:MIRAGE
| Not valid before: 2025-07-04T19:58:41
|_Not valid after:  2105-07-04T19:58:41
3269/tcp open  ssl/ldap      Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP (Domain: mirage.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
| ssl-cert: Subject:
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:dc01.mirage.htb, DNS:mirage.htb, DNS:MIRAGE
| Not valid before: 2025-07-04T19:58:41
|_Not valid after:  2105-07-04T19:58:41

5985/tcp open  http          Microsoft HTTPAPI httpd 2.0 (SSDP/UPnP)
|_http-title: Not Found
Service Info: Host: DC01; OS: Windows; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
|_clock-skew: 7h00m00s
| smb2-time:
|   date: 2025-07-21T19:18:29
|_  start_date: N/A
| smb2-security-mode:
|   3:1:1:
|_    Message signing enabled and required

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 76.61 seconds



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