This series will follow my exercises in HackTheBox. All published writeups are for retired HTB machines. Whether or not I use Metasploit to pwn the server will be indicated in the title.

Legacy

Difficulty: Easy

Machine IP: 10.10.10.4

As always, I start enumeration with AutoRecon. I see that the server is running SMB and the OS is likely Windows XP.

Let’s see what options I have in Metasploit. I’ll use the MS08_67 exploit.

I configure the exploit options to target 10.10.10.4.

And there I have it. A root shell.

From here I can read the user and root’s flags with ease (ignoring some Windows directory traversal mistakes).