
Explosion is a boot2root machine on HackTheBox. It has “Very Easy” difficulty and is part of Tier 0 starting point challenges.
Enumeration
I’ve started the enumeration phase with an Nmap scan:
sudo nmap -p- 10.129.183.199 -sC -sV -oN nmap/initial
This command will scan all ports of the target with scripts…

Meow is boot2root CTF on HackTheBox. It has the difficulty “very easy” and is part of the Tier 0 starting point machines.
Enumeration
I’ve started with a Nmap scan with the following parameters:
sudo nmap -p- 10.129.1.17 -sC -sV -oN nmap/initial
This will scan all ports on the target, as well as invoke scripts and version enumeration. Finally it will output the results into “intial”-file in “nmap” directory.
After running Nmap, there was only one port open. Port 23 was serving Telnet: