--- title: Ghost Tom Box on TryHackMe.com | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of the Ghost Tom box on TryHackMe, covering reconnaissance with nmap, exploiting the Ghostcat vulnerability via a Jserv auxiliary module to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ghost-tom-box-on-tryhackme-com-2bfousxgp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ghost Tom Box on TryHackMe.com | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the Ghost Tom box on TryHackMe, covering reconnaissance with nmap, exploiting the Ghostcat vulnerability via a Jserv auxiliary module to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ghost-tom-box-on-tryhackme-com-2bfousxgp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2bfoUSXgP.png og:image:alt: Ghost Tom Box on TryHackMe.com og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ghost Tom Box on TryHackMe.com **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of the Ghost Tom box on TryHackMe, covering reconnaissance with nmap, exploiting the Ghostcat vulnerability via a Jserv auxiliary module to retrieve credentials, cracking a GPG hash, and escalating privileges to root using a sudo misconfiguration with /usr/bin/zip via GTFOBins. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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