HackTheBox Nocturnal Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Nocturnal' machine which is easy rated linux box. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
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┌──(dollarboysushil卐kali)-[~/Documents/htb-boxes/TheFrizz]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.xx.xxx
Nmap scan report for 10.129.xx.xxx
Host is up (0.017s latency).
Not shown: 65533 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.12 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 20:26:88:70:08:51:ee:de:3a:a6:20:41:87:96:25:17 (RSA)
| 256 4f:80:05:33:a6:d4:22:64:e9:ed:14:e3:12:bc:96:f1 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 d9:88:1f:68:43:8e:d4:2a:52:fc:f0:66:d4:b9:ee:6b (ED25519)
80/tcp open http nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://nocturnal.htb/
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
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