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HackTheBox Planning Writeup

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

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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/environment]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.18.241
PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON         VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 9.6p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu13.11 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   256 62:ff:f6:d4:57:88:05:ad:f4:d3:de:5b:9b:f8:50:f1 (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBMv/TbRhuPIAz+BOq4x+61TDVtlp0CfnTA2y6mk03/g2CffQmx8EL/uYKHNYNdnkO7MO3DXpUbQGq1k2H6mP6Fg=
|   256 4c:ce:7d:5c:fb:2d:a0:9e:9f:bd:f5:5c:5e:61:50:8a (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIKpJkWOBF3N5HVlTJhPDWhOeW+p9G7f2E9JnYIhKs6R0



80/tcp open  http    syn-ack ttl 63 nginx 1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST
|_http-title: Edukate - Online Education Website
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel



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