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Hack The Box8 answered prompts

Dancing Hack The Box walkthrough with 8 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

  • SMB is one of the most basic and well-known protocols out there. You can easily search the acronym of any protocol that you don't know on Internet and the full name of the protocol will come up as the first result. When using acronyms, remember that the first letter of each word is always capitalized as standard. This is called Camel Case (or Medial Capitals).
    Server Message Block
  • A simple portscan using version detection can get you this result. Also, Googling the port value will return the services used for that port in most cases.
    445
  • You will need to use the -sV switch during your nmap scan in order to see this in your results! The answer creates a ? at the end, so remember to include it!
    microsoft-ds
  • The acronym of this flag stands for 'list', and is precedes by a '-'.
    -L
  • Use "smbclient -L" to list them.
    4
  • It's the one that doesn't terminate with the '$' symbol. This is a custom share, made by a system administrator during the configuration phase.
    WorkShares
  • This is the same command used during the interaction with the FTP shell in the previous box!
    get
  • Submit root flag
    5f61c10dffbc77a704d76016a22f1664