Hack The Box - HTB Connected Writeup - Easy - Weekly - June 06th, 2026

June 7, 2026

Difficulty: Easy OS: Linux (CentOS 7) Reconnaissance Port Scan nmap -sV -sC -p- --min-rate 5000 PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.4 (protocol 2.0) 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/ 443/tcp open ssl/http Apache httpd 2.4.6 ((CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.4.16) | ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=pbxconnect/organizationName=SomeOrganization Three ports open. Port 80 immediately redirects to http://connected.htb/ — add the vhost to /etc/hosts: echo " connected.htb" …