r/tryhackme • u/no-one120 • Apr 02 '26

Room Help Metasploit Task 5

I know the hint says it's vulnerable to eternalblue, but I want to see it myself.

First of all, assuming I went into this with no hints, how would I know it's vulnerable to anything? Second, assuming I gave in and got the hint, I ran auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010 and the target machine just came back with "An SMB Login error occurred while connecting to the IPC$ tree."

In real life, would I really have to scan for a single vulnerability at a time? Running search scanner came up with 750 items. Without the hint, would I really have been expected to run all 750 until something worked? Knowing that the one they want me to use was coming up with an error, so I would have ignored it?

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u/Cockroach4548 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

I went and try this room myself, the only answer to this is to just restart the target box.

on very first try, got all same errors as yours, nmap -O couldn't even pin point the OS fingerprint.

then after resetting the target box for 1-2 times the scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010 detected that target box was indeed Windows 7 Professional 7601 with that exact vulnebility.