Connected Writeup - HackTheBox
Last updated June 10, 2026 • 5 min read
Reconnaissance - Nmap Scan
An initial Nmap scan was performed to identify open ports on the target machine.
Open Port Scan
Starting Nmap 7.99 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-06-07 07:19 +0500 Nmap scan report for 10.129.5.142 Host is up (0.24s latency). Not shown: 997 filtered tcp ports (no-response) Some closed ports may be reported as filtered due to --defeat-rst-ratelimit PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 23.05 seconds
Service Version and Script Scan
Further Nmap scans were conducted to determine service versions and run default scripts on the identified open ports (80 and 443).
Starting Nmap 7.99 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-06-07 07:20 +0500 Nmap scan report for 10.129.5.142 Host is up (0.32s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16) |_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://connected.htb/ |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16 443/tcp open ssl/http Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16) |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16 | ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=pbxconnect/organizationName=SomeOrganization/stateOrProvinceName=SomeState/countryName=-- | Not valid before: 2025-11-30T14:07:27 |_Not valid after: 2026-11-30T14:07:27 |_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time |_http-title: 400 Bad Request Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 36.93 seconds
Hostname Resolution
The Nmap scan indicated a redirect to connected.htb. To resolve this, an entry was added to the /etc/hosts file.
10.129.5.142 connected.heb
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