Linux File Transfer Methods

ℹ️ Information¶

• 🌐 Website: HackTheBox
• 📚 Module: File Transfers
• 🔗 Link: Linux File Transfer Methods

❓Question¶

Download the file flag.txt from the web root using Python from the Pwnbox. Submit the contents of the file as your answer.

📋 Walkthrough¶

The provided IP has a website on the default port (80). Let's download the file flag.txt from the website using wget

$ wget 10.129.24.40/flag.txt
--2025-07-01 03:08:02--  http://10.129.234.168/flag.txt
Connecting to 10.129.24.40:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘flag.txt’

flag.txt            100%[===================>]      32  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2025-07-01 03:08:02 (6.86 MB/s) - ‘flag.txt’ saved [32/32]

❓Question¶

Upload the attached file named upload_nix.zip to the target using the method of your choice. Once uploaded, SSH to the box, extract the file, and run "hasher <extracted file>" from the command line. Submit the generated hash as your answer.

📋 Walkthrough¶

We have to download the zip file attached to the challenge. If are you using the virtual machine in HTB, you can download it using Firefox or wget/curl Let's use those credentials to upload the file using scp:

$ scp upload_nix.txt htb-student@10.129.234.168:/home/htb-student/
htb-student@10.129.234.168's password: 
upload_nix.txt                                100%   32     3.5KB/s   00:00

Then connect on the target machine using ssh and run hasher upload_nix.txt