Shocker (Easy) Box The Shocker box is an easy machine on HTB. It explores web enumeration and the ShellShock exploit. Initial Foothold Let’s do an NMAP scan of the server: nmap <TARGET-IP> Port 80 and Port 2222 seem to be open. A service scan on both port shows us that port 2222 is …

Lame (Easy) Box Lame is a retired easy machine from HTB focusing on exploiting a basic vulnerability from the Samba service. Initial Foothold & Escalation Let’s do a quick NMAP scan to see some open ports. An initial scan of nmap 10.129.236.188 doesn’t bring us anything. Let’s …

Blue (Easy) Box Blue is an easy machine on HTB. It covers the MS17_010 exploit, also known as the EternalBlue exploit. Initial Foothold & Escalation According to the description, this machine is vulnerable to the EternalBlue exploit. We need to make sure that at least the SMB port 445 is open. …