Today we will be tackling IDE, an excellent Linux box on the https://tryhackme.com platform. As always we will start with an autorecon scan of the target IP.
From this output it is clear to see ports: 21, 22, 80, and 62337 are open. Let's examine port TCP/21 first. We can see from autorecon’s output that port 21 allows anonymous login (not pictured). Let's connect and see what is there.
From a directory listing, we can see that there are three directories on the FTP port, “.” “..” and “…” The directory “.” denotes the present working directory and “..” denotes the directory “above” the one we are currently viewing. That leaves “…” which can easily be overlooked. Inside the directory “…” we find a file called “-” (not pictured). We can retrieve this file and view its contents with the command:
get -
