Hacking Insights by Max Bautista

https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/Meow

10.129.1.17

Task 1 – What does the acronym VM stand for?

A: Virtual Machine

Task 2 – What tool do we use to interact with the operating system in order to issue commands via the command line, such as the one to start our VPN connection? It’s also known as a console or shell.

A: terminal

Task 3 – What service do we use to form our VPN connection into HTB labs?

I just know this from clicking around in HackTheBox

A: openvpn

Task 4 – What tool do we use to test our connection to the target with an ICMP echo request?

I use this everyday

A: ping

Task 6 – What is the name of the most common tool for finding open ports on a target?

A: nmap

Task 7 – What service do we identify on port 23/tcp during our scans?

A: telnet

I knew all the previous questions from past experience.

Submit Flag

Started up the machine. Following the questions I nmap scanned it anyway and only receive port 23 open

Attempted to connect to that port to see if it had anything interesting and received a log in. 

I attempted admin:admin, meow:meow, cat:cat and other iterations of that which did not work. I was confused for a second, but after looking through the questions I ended up using root and it got me in.

A: b40abdfe23665f766f9c61ecba8a4c19