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Basic Pentesting writeup and attack path

Basic Pentesting is a easy Linux machine on TryHackMe that I solved myself. This page is my short attack path summary and the techniques it trains.

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PlatformTryHackMe
Operating systemLinux
DifficultyEasy
Time to user18m
Time to root45m
User owned2026-08-15
Root owned2026-08-15

Attack path summary

Enumerate SMB users (kay, jan). Brute force jan's password via Hydra, extract kay's id_rsa from home directory, crack passphrase.

Techniques

SMB-Enumeration Hydra-SSH John-Cracking

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