Hack The Box — Haircut: Walkthrough (without Metasploit)

David Tse
11 min readMar 7, 2021

Reconnaissance

As usual, start with nmap scanning.

$ nmap -sC -sV -Pn 10.10.10.24 -oN nmap.txt -T4 
Host discovery disabled (-Pn). All addresses will be marked 'up' and scan times will be slower.
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-03-06 23:34 HKT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.24
Host is up (0.045s latency).
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David Tse

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