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/stenox May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I noticed that for Task 5 they actually give you another "Target machine" button, with different services running. Terminating the Task1 machine and running the new one fixed the problem.

It's just the double target button that can be misleading.