HackTheBox Writeup: Netmon

This blog post contains my writeup for HackTheBox’s Netmon. This box was about the PRTG Network Monitor and its vulnerabilities. The flag can be obtained with and without Metasploit, and this blog post covers both.

Table of Contents

• Reconnaissance
• SMB
• HTTP
• FTP
• Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
• Exploiting PRTG Network Notification Management without Metasploit
• Exploiting with Metasploit

Reconnaissance

I started off by checking the connection to the Netmon box using,

$ ping 10.10.10.152

I was able to verify the connection. …

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