HackTheBox Era Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Era' machine which is medium rated linux box. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
RECONNAISSANCE
NMAP
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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/era]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.191.177
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-07-29 12:20 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.129.191.177
Host is up (0.16s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open ftp vsftpd 3.0.5
80/tcp open http nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://era.htb/
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.95 seconds
Secured
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