Advent of Cyber
I won't be sharing Flags for ethical reasons. You will have to follow the write-up to get them. Initial setup To get started, you need to start the target machine on TryHackMe and SSH into it from your VM. You can obviously use the VM you are given
Initial Scan sudo nmap -sCV -vv -A 10.10.171.16 map scan report for cloudsite.thm (10.10.171.16) Host is up, received reset ttl 60 (0.16s latency). Scanned at xx IST for 29s Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset) PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION 22/
Initial Scan sudo nmap -sCV -vvv -A 10.10.162.10 Nmap scan report for 10.10.162.10 Host is up, received timestamp-reply ttl 60 (0.14s latency). Scanned at xx IST for 165s Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset) PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION 22/tcp open
Initial scan sudo nmap -sSCV -p21,22,23,25,53,80,139,445,3306,5432,8009,8180 192.168.58.131 -vv Output: Nmap scan report for 192.168.58.131 Host is up, received arp-response (0.00080s latency). Scanned at 2025-11-08 23:19:58 IST for 111s PORT STATE
Initial Scan nmap -sCV 10.38.1.111 Nmap scan report for 10.38.1.111 Host is up (0.0012s latency). Not shown: 997 filtered tcp ports (no-response) PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp closed ssh 80/tcp open http Apache httpd |_http-server-header: Apache |_http-title: Site doesn't
The first thing we do is scan the target. The result of the scan is as follows: PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION 22/tcp open ssh syn-ack OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0) | ssh-hostkey: | 3072 e7:7a:1d:d4:80:65:e3:19:53:d4: