HackTheBox Voleur Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Voleur' machine which is hard rated windows box. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/Voleur]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.47.177
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-07-06 07:53 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.129.47.177
Host is up (0.27s latency).
Not shown: 988 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
53/tcp open domain Simple DNS Plus
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: voleur.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
445/tcp open microsoft-ds?
464/tcp open kpasswd5?
593/tcp open ncacn_http Microsoft Windows RPC over HTTP 1.0
636/tcp open tcpwrapped
2222/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.11 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 42:40:39:30:d6:fc:44:95:37:e1:9b:88:0b:a2:d7:71 (RSA)
| 256 ae:d9:c2:b8:7d:65:6f:58:c8:f4:ae:4f:e4:e8:cd:94 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 53:ad:6b:6c:ca:ae:1b:40:44:71:52:95:29:b1:bb:c1 (ED25519)
3268/tcp open ldap Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP (Domain: voleur.htb0., Site: Default-First-Site-Name)
3269/tcp open tcpwrapped
5985/tcp open http Microsoft HTTPAPI httpd 2.0 (SSDP/UPnP)
|_http-server-header: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
|_http-title: Not Found
Service Info: Host: DC; OSs: Windows, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows, cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Host script results:
| smb2-time:
| date: 2025-07-06T19:54:23
|_ start_date: N/A
| smb2-security-mode:
| 3:1:1:
|_ Message signing enabled and required
|_clock-skew: 8h00m10s
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 88.51 seconds
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