Node-Hack The Box Write up w/o Metasploit

Derick Neriamparambil
6 min readOct 3, 2020

Node is an interesting Linux machine that is listed in TJNull’s OSCP like machines.

Lets get started with nmap scanning.

I used nmapAutomater. You can download the tool from the below link

— — — — — — — — — — -Starting Nmap Quick Scan — — — — — — — — — — -

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020–10–02 06:42 PDT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.58 (10.10.10.58)
Host is up (0.028s latency).
Not shown: 998 filtered ports
Some closed ports may be reported as filtered due to — defeat-rst-ratelimit
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
3000/tcp open ppp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 10.96 seconds

— — — — — — — — — — -Starting Nmap Basic Scan — — — — — — — — — — -

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020–10–02 06:42 PDT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.58 (10.10.10.58)
Host is up (0.026s latency).

PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.2 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
|…

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