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THM - Cheese CTF

6 min readApr 10, 2025

A writeup for the room Cheese CTF on TryHackMe

Inspired by the great cheese talk of THM!

Footprinting

We can start by doing a scan with nmap.

nmap -sS MACHINE_IP

Many ports seems open, but by better filtering the result we can be sure about the port 22 and 80.

On port 80 we can see only a static page.

User flag

Looking for hidden directories

If we look at the source of the home page, we see a comment and a link to a login form.

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Francesco Pastore
Francesco Pastore

Written by Francesco Pastore

An engineering student in Milan and a web developer for an IT company. Write about programming and cybersecurity topics.

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