Learning Not To Shrink by Kurrupt68
February 4, 2026 | Reading Time: 7 min
There’s this thing that happens so quietly you don’t notice it at first.
A new lab drops and before you even read the description or take a look, you’ve already decided “I won’t be able to solve this.” Someone on Twitter posts a critical they found in a program and your first thought isn’t curiosity, it’s a closed door. “I can’t do that.” A course comes up in uni and you’re not thinking about what you’ll learn, you’re calculating the minimum grade to not fail.
TryHackMe - Steel Mountain by Kurrupt68
May 3, 2022 | Reading Time: 5 min
Hack into a Mr.Robot themed Windows machine.
Another day to root a box let’s get to it.
Enumeration
Started with rustscan to get a list of open ports and then pass the ports to a nmap command, chose rustscan for it’s amazing speed.
⚡ root@kali ❯ rustscan 10.10.63.218
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| |__) | _ ___| |_| (___ ___ __ _ _ __
| _ / | | / __| __|\___ \ / __/ _` | '_ \
| | \ \ |_| \__ \ |_ ____) | (_| (_| | | | |
|_| \_\__,_|___/\__|_____/ \___\__,_|_| |_|
Faster nmap scanning with rust.
Automated Decryption Tool - https://github.com/ciphey/ciphey
Creator https://github.com/brandonskerritt
49152 open
49153 open
49154 open
3389 open
80 open
445 open
53730 open
5723 open
5985 open
6100 open
Once completed a nmap scan starts and scans the open ports to discover the servicees running on them.
TryHackMe - Gallery by Kurrupt68
February 19, 2022 | Reading Time: 5 min
Try to exploit our image gallery system
Alright, let’s get to it.
Enumeration
Started with an nmap scan to help identify open ports and services.
⚡ ~/tryhackme/Gallery ❯ nmap -sS -sV -A 10.10.67.206
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-02-20 16:55 MST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.67.206
Host is up (0.18s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works
8080/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
| http-cookie-flags:
| /:
| PHPSESSID:
|_ httponly flag not set
| http-open-proxy: Potentially OPEN proxy.
|_Methods supported:CONNECTION
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Simple Image Gallery System
Network Distance: 2 hops
TRACEROUTE (using port 199/tcp)
HOP RTT ADDRESS
1 190.15 ms 10.9.0.1
2 190.12 ms 10.10.67.206
OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 34.61 seconds
hmm,two ports seem to be open and running HTTP services heading over to port 80 shows the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page, I checked port 8080 that revealed some sort of a Content Management System login page at /gallery/login.php.