Ethical Hacking: Case Study on Virtual Machine with Flags and Techniques

Ethical Hacking

Executive Summary
This report concentrates on the five flags, using a case study related to virtual machine. The
concept of ethical hacking is represented here to help the readers. Apart from flags, this
project contains explainstion of web server content, web shell, securing the systems from the
hackers and information related to basic Linux privilege escalation. The explanation
determines that the first flag ensures to do evaluation of web server content, by finding the
administrator's username and password. The other flags ensures to fetch knowledge in terms
of web shells, for cracking the password, for identification of the mistaken passwords
entered on the system with the help of TCP port scanner tool and the basics of Linux
privilege escalation, respectively.
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Table of Contents
1 Project Description...........................................................................................................2
2 Defined methodology and Testing Log...........................................................................2
Flag 1) web server................................................................................................................4
Flag 2) web shells..................................................................................................................6
Flag 3) Password cracker...................................................................................................8
Flag 4) TCP port scanner..................................................................................................14
Flag 5) Privilege..................................................................................................................17
3 Results and Recommendations......................................................................................18
References...............................................................................................................................19
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1 Project Description
The idea of this project is to shed some light on a case study which talks about ethical
hacking. The requirements of this project includes that the given system has to be infiltrated
by the user for attaining root level privileges. Nearly five flags will be explained in the report
based on the virtual machine. The characters of each flag will be represented in the report,
where the flags, methods, tools and tevhbiques for ethical hacking are discussed. It is
expected that the flags help to scan the port and help with identification of wrongly entered
password, then password cracking and so on.
2 Defined methodology and Testing Log
As shown in the below figure, the installation of the Virtual machine is required to be
done by the user, at the beginning of the project (Ali, 2014).
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Flag 1) web server
Any web server needs space to store the records of the website. The records could be
such as, all the HTML reports, it's related resources, images, audio, video, CSS templates,
JavaScript documents, textual styles and recordings. It is known that such inform ation or
records might be present in the user's system (Buchanan, 2014).
The below section mentions the content of web server.
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