Introduction

This box introduces us to many basic concepts and tools used in ethical hacking. We explore using commands such as: ping, nmap, telnet, and more. For this box, to capture the flag we need to ultimately login to the telnet service running on the box in order to read the file containing the flag (flag.txt).

Enumeration

To start off, we ping (also known as an ICMP (internet control message protocol) echo test) the target box (computer) in order to …

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