HTB: Meow Walkthrough

A walkthorough of the Meow room on Hack The Box.

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Challenge Type: Offensive | OS: Linux | Difficulty: Very Easy

Question 1: What does the acronym VM stand for?

This is a very basic question, if this is your first time doing a CTF challenge, Google is your friend.

The answer to this question is Virtual Machine

Question 2: What tool do we use to interact with the operating system in order to issue commands via the command line, such as the one to start our VPN connection? It’s also known as a console or shell.

Another basic question, if you have not played around with Linux, I would recommend downloading and installing it within a virtual machine.

The answer to this question is terminal.

Question 3: What service do we use to form our VPN connection into HTB labs?

The answer to this question is OpenVPN

Question 4: What is the abreviated name for a ‘tunnel interface’ in the output of your VPN boot-up sequence output?

This answer can be found with Google if you don’t know much about host interfaces.

The answer to this question is tun

Question 5: What tool do we use to test our connection to the target with an ICMP echo request?

The answer to this is ping

Question 6: What is the name of the most common tool for finding open ports on a target?

The answer to this is nmap

Question 7: What service do we identify on port 23/tcp during our scans?

The answer to this is telnet.

Question 8: What username is able to log into the target over telnet with a blank password?

For this question I used the hint available which states, “It is popularly known as the administrative account for any Linux-based Operating System, residing at the highest level of privilege on any such system.”

The answer for this would then be root.

Question 9: Submit the flag located in root’s home directory.

To get the asnwer, you need to Telnet into the server. If you’re unsure how follow me below or type in telnet -h in your terminal.

The answer to this question is b40abdfe23665f766f9c61ecba8a4c19.