HTB Heal Writeup (Walkthrough)

Machine Overview

• Name: Heal
• Difficulty: Medium
• OS: Linux
• IP: 10.10.11.46

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ sudo nmap -sC -sV -oA Heal/Heal 10.10.11.46
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-04-25 13:58 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.46
Host is up (0.21s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 8.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu0.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   256 68:af:80:86:6e:61:7e:bf:0b:ea:10:52:d7:7a:94:3d (ECDSA)
|_  256 52:f4:8d:f1:c7:85:b6:6f:c6:5f:b2:db:a6:17:68:ae (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http    nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://heal.htb/
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
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 14.05 seconds

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