Challenge Overview

The Security Operation Centre (SOC) of the company had detected that a hacktivist had compromised a company CMS server and had gained access to the system files. The system had then isolated from the production network by the security analyst. Unfortunately, the compromised system contains important company data. As an ethical hacker working in an external security consultant team hired by the company, you are tasked to penetrate the machine and find way to recreate the attack Your target is a machine running on a Ubuntu OS with an IP address of 10.10.1.48. This challenge will test your ability to perform reconnaissance and exploitation while gaining a deeper understanding of the exploitation in order pwn the box. The Security Operation Centre (SOC) of the company had detected that a hacktivist had compromised a company CMS server and had gained access to the system files. The system had then isolated from the production network by the security analyst. Unfortunately, the compromised system contains important company data. As an ethical hacker working in an external security consultant team hired by the company, you are tasked to penetrate the machine and find way to recreate the attack. Your target is a machine running on a Ubuntu OS with an IP address of 10.10.1.48. This challenge will test your ability to perform reconnaissance and exploitation while gaining a deeper understanding of the exploitation in order pwn the box.

What You Will Learn

  • Conducting reconnaissance and service enumeration on a target Ubuntu system to identify open ports, running services, and potential entry points.
  • Analyzing a vulnerable CMS environment to discover weaknesses that could allow unauthorized access to system files.
  • Exploiting identified vulnerabilities to gain initial access to the compromised server.
  • Navigating the system to understand how the hacktivist originally breached the machine and accessed sensitive data.
  • Recreating the attack path and successfully compromising the system to demonstrate a full exploitation workflow.

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