HackTheBox Facts Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Facts' machine. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
HackTheBox Facts Writeup
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┌──(dollarboysushil卐kali)-[~/Documents/htb_boxes/facts]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.134.102
Starting Nmap 7.98 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-02-01 07:56 -0500
Nmap scan report for 10.129.134.102
Host is up (0.30s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 9.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu3.2 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 256 4d:d7:b2:8c:d4:df:57:9c:a4:2f:df:c6:e3:01:29:89 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 a3:ad:6b:2f:4a:bf:6f:48:ac:81:b9:45:3f:de:fb:87 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http nginx 1.26.3 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.26.3 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://facts.htb/
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.63 seconds
Secured
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