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Initial Scan

nmap -sV -sT -sC -T4 -v 10.129.208.251
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-08-23 20:31 EDT
NSE: Loaded 151 scripts for scanning.
NSE: Script Pre-scanning.
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating Ping Scan at 20:31
Scanning 10.129.208.251 [2 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 20:31, 0.04s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 20:31
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 20:31, 0.08s elapsed
Initiating Connect Scan at 20:31
Scanning 10.129.208.251 [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 10.129.208.251
Discovered open port 21/tcp on 10.129.208.251
Completed Connect Scan at 20:31, 0.69s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Initiating Service scan at 20:31
Scanning 2 services on 10.129.208.251
Completed Service scan at 20:31, 6.09s elapsed (2 services on 1 host)
NSE: Script scanning 10.129.208.251.
Initiating NSE at 20:31
NSE: [ftp-bounce] PORT response: 500 Illegal PORT command.
Completed NSE at 20:31, 1.03s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.18s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Nmap scan report for 10.129.208.251
Host is up (0.047s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open  ftp     vsftpd 3.0.3
| ftp-anon: Anonymous FTP login allowed (FTP code 230)
| -rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp            33 Jun 08  2021 allowed.userlist
|_-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp            62 Apr 20  2021 allowed.userlist.passwd
| ftp-syst: 
|   STAT: 
| FTP server status:
|      Connected to ::ffff:10.10.14.9
|      Logged in as ftp
|      TYPE: ASCII
|      No session bandwidth limit
|      Session timeout in seconds is 300
|      Control connection is plain text
|      Data connections will be plain text
|      At session startup, client count was 4
|      vsFTPd 3.0.3 - secure, fast, stable
|_End of status
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.41 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-favicon: Unknown favicon MD5: 1248E68909EAE600881B8DB1AD07F356
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: OPTIONS HEAD GET POST
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Smash - Bootstrap Business Template
Service Info: OS: Unix

NSE: Script Post-scanning.
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating NSE at 20:31
Completed NSE at 20:31, 0.00s elapsed
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.53 seconds

Task 1

What nmap scanning switch employs the use of default scripts during a scan?

Found from nmap --help

Answer: -sC

Task 2

What service version is found to be running on port 21?

Found in initial scan.

Answer: vsFTPd 3.0.3

Task 3

What FTP code is returned to us for the "Anonymous FTP login allowed" message?

Google - I don't have all status codes memorized.

Answer: 230

Task 4

What command can we use to download the files we find on the FTP server?

Previous knowledge of using FTP before.

Answer: get

Task 5

What is one of the higher-privilege sounding usernames in the list we retrieved?

A default typical high privilege account.

Answer: admin

Task 6

What version of Apache HTTP Server is running on the target host?

Found in the initial scan.

Answer: 2.4.41

Task 7

What is the name of a handy web site analysis plug-in we can install in our browser?

Known from previous knowledge, google "web site analysis plug-in" helps find this answer as well.

Answer: Wappalyzer

Task 8

What switch can we use with gobuster to specify we are looking for specific filetypes?

Found from running gobuster --help.

Answer: -x

Task 9

What file have we found that can provide us a foothold on the target?

Running gobuster against the host:

Answer: login.php

Task 10

Submit root flag

If we first FTP into the machine with an anonymous account

We can see a list of a file and get them to our machine

now lets cat the files and just work with what it's there

After attempting: admin:rKXM59ESxesUFHAd we were able to log in and get our flag.

Answer: c7110277ac44d78b6a9fff2232434d16

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