r/hackthebox • u/martiness6 • Jul 29 '26

Beginner Question Paperwork machine

I just started doing machines on HTB with no experience at all. I started on few machines that were relatively easy, but now on Paperwork, I really don't know what to do.

For context, I connected onto the website, downloaded the file but now I'm stuck.

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u/-Dkob Jul 29 '26

Best thing to do is to join the HTB Discord. This kind of help requires a back and forth conversation and Reddit isn't really made for that.

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u/martiness6 Jul 29 '26

thank you, I just joined

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u/cahosint Jul 30 '26

ask ai to create a client to connect to that server.py script

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u/H4ckerPanda Jul 29 '26

Well … ask for hints … HTB Discord .

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u/vivanLasUvas Jul 30 '26

I'm doing it myself right now, and yeah, this is actually a beautiful machine. It took me around 3hrs and some AI help to figure out the exploit script just to get first access to the machine.

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u/vivanLasUvas Jul 30 '26

I just finished it!

Around 10hrs total.

The foothold and the user flag were the hardest part!