HackTheBox Imagery Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Puppy' machine. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/imagery]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.34.161
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-09-28 04:09 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.129.34.161
Host is up (0.27s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 9.7p1 Ubuntu 7ubuntu4.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 256 35:94:fb:70:36:1a:26:3c:a8:3c:5a:5a:e4:fb:8c:18 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 c2:52:7c:42:61:ce:97:9d:12:d5:01:1c:ba:68:0f:fa (ED25519)
8000/tcp open http Werkzeug httpd 3.1.3 (Python 3.12.7)
|_http-title: Image Gallery
|_http-server-header: Werkzeug/3.1.3 Python/3.12.7
Service Info: OS: 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 19.02 seconds
Secured
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