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Connected

Walkthrough for Cohort on Hack The Box, release after machine retirement

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Enumeration

Nmap Enumeration

nmap -p 22,80,443 -sVC 10.129.39.219 -oN nmap_scan              
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-09-15 17:55 IST
Nmap scan report for 10.129.39.219
Host is up (0.11s latency).
 
PORT    STATE SERVICE  VERSION
22/tcp  open  ssh      OpenSSH 7.4 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 4e:60:38:6f:e7:78:6c:ca:58:62:a1:f1:56:ae:8d:30 (RSA)
|   256 12:41:55:26:9d:ad:3d:e8:bf:4e:31:aa:d7:d1:a5:d2 (ECDSA)
|_  256 8e:b6:96:e0:21:83:5d:1d:ce:8d:e2:6a:dd:38:c6:75 (ED25519)
80/tcp  open  http     Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://connected.htb/
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16
443/tcp open  ssl/http Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16)
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
| http-title: 404 Not Found
|_Requested resource was config.php
| http-robots.txt: 1 disallowed entry 
|_/
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=pbxconnect/organizationName=SomeOrganization/stateOrProvinceName=SomeState/countryName=--
| Not valid before: 2025-11-30T14:07:27
|_Not valid after:  2026-11-30T14:07:27
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16
 
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 25.39 seconds

Three services on ports 22, 80 and 443. And the HTTP service tries to resolve to connected.htb . Adding it to the hosts and visiting the site:-

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