Penetration Testing For Beginners | Basic pentesting 1 Vulnhub Walkthrough CTF
We covered the solution walkthrough of Basic pentesting 1 Vulnhub by introducing the basic steps and methodology involved in a penetration test.
Highlights
Both numerous remote vulnerabilities and several avenues for privilege escalation are present on this machine. Since VirtualBox is what I used for all of my testing, that is the suggested platform. It is said to work with VMware as well, but I haven’t personally tested this.
This virtual machine is designed with novice penetration testers in mind. The VM should, ideally, have the ideal level of complexity for beginners.
Open Ports
21/tcp open ftp ProFTPD 1.3.3c
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.2
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
We used searchsploit commond to search ProFTPD 1.3.3c on ExploitDB.
And for that, we discovered two exploits. There was a backdoor in ProFTPD 1.3.3c. A backdoor is a malicious code hidden in the source code. Furthermore, Metasploit-framework is capable of exploiting this Backdoor Command Execution vulnerability.
