HackTheBox Browsed Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Browsed' machine. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
HackTheBox Browsed Writeup
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┌──(dollarboysushil卐kali)-[~/Documents/htb_boxes/browsed]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.230.56
Starting Nmap 7.98 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-01-20 04:22 -0500
Nmap scan report for 10.129.230.56
Host is up (0.28s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 9.6p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu13.14 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 256 02:c8:a4:ba:c5:ed:0b:13:ef:b7:e7:d7:ef:a2:9d:92 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 53:ea:be:c7:07:05:9d:aa:9f:44:f8:bf:32:ed:5c:9a (ED25519)
80/tcp open http nginx 1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Browsed
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 19.17 seconds
Secured
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