Blue

Blue writeup by Thamizhiniyan C S

Overview

Hello everyone, In this blog we are going to solve Blue from HackTheBox.

Link for the machine : https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/51

Lets Start 🙌

Connect to the HTB server by using the OpenVpn configuration file that’s generated by HTB.

[ Click Here to learn more about how to connect to vpn and access the boxes. ]

After connecting to the vpn service, click on Join Machine to access the machine’s ip.

After joining the machine you can see the IP Address of the target machine.

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Reconnaissance

First I started by scanning for open ports on the target machine.

Rustscan

Results

From the scan results, I found the following service: Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1 microsoft-ds (workgroup: WORKGROUP). I google about this service and got this:

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Exploitation

I opened metasploit and run the above mentioned exploit:

The attack was successful and I got the meterpreter shell back. Now its time to find the flags.

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Getting the User Flag

Found the user flag at C:\Users\haris\Desktop\user.txt

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Getting the Root Flag

Found the user flag at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\root.txt

We have successfully obtained all the flags.

Thank You!!!!