HTB Starting Point- Tier 0 Walkthroughs

Tier0 Machines that you'll cover for starting point:

Meow

1. What does the acronym VM stand for?

   • Virtual Machine

2. What tool do we use to interact with the operating system in order to start our VPN connection?

   • Terminal

3. What service we use to form our VPN connection?

   • openvpn

4. What is the abbreviated for the tunnel interface in the output of your VPN boot-up sequence output?

   • ssh

5. What tool do we use to test our connection the target?

   • ping

6. What’s the name of the script we use to scan the target’s ports?

   • nmap

7. What service do we identify on port 23/tcp during our scan?

   • telnet

8. What username ultimately works with the remote management login prompt for the target?

   • Root

9. Submit the root flag:

   • HTB{b40abdfe23665f766f9c61ecba8a4c19}

Findings & Screenshots:

I started off with a nmap scan and the scan gives us a result of telnet port 23/tcp being open:

Signing in on telnet using “root”, and we find that we don’t need to use a password. Listing the files we find the flag and reading out the file we have the flag we can submit to the task:

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