Challenge Overview

You are a security analyst for the government. One of the agencies suspects that an employee has potentially leaked out information from a data server that houses confidential information and has caused tensions with the public. Your task is to investigate the data server the employee accessed and with what account. Your task is to gain access to the system by identifying and exploiting the vulnerabilities before hackers do and report the findings to your InfoSec team. This experience requires knowledge of privilege escalation, registry Run Keys, and red team methodologies. Players will demonstrate skills in autorun applications. The target machine runs on Windows with an IP address of 10.10.1.105. Your mission is to get administrator-level access to the system, find the flag.txt file, and submit the flag value. You will gain hands-on experience in Module 04: Enumeration, and Module 06: System Hacking, as covered in the Certified Ethical Hacker course objectives. You can access the target via SSH using these credentials. (Username: bob, Password: cyberq@123).

What You Will Learn

  • Performing system enumeration to identify potential vulnerabilities on a Windows target machine.
  • Exploiting misconfigurations and weaknesses to gain deeper system access.
  • Using registry Run Keys and autorun mechanisms for persistence analysis.
  • Applying privilege escalation techniques to obtain administrator-level access.
  • Following red team methodologies to investigate compromised systems and retrieve sensitive data

Program Curriculum

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