Challenge Overview

Brandon, a member of the military's research and development team, is accused of storing a secret key in a classified R&D file containing sensitive national security policies and personnel rosters. As an ethical hacker, your mission is to gain unauthorized access to the file, bypass any security measures, and reveal the hidden secret information. Your goal is to demonstrate your ethical hacking skills while ensuring that the sensitive information is retrieved in a lawful manner.

This Challenge requires knowledge of readable SSH private key methods and red team methodologies and demonstrates network scanning skills and the use of Linux privilege escalation. The target machine runs on a Linux Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.5. You have user-level SSH access to the machine, and the credentials are jason and U#qYW$@50L. Your mission is to get Brandon user's access to the system, find the flag.txt file, and submit the flag value.

What You Will Learn

  • Extracting readable SSH private keys using various tools.
  • Demonstrating network scanning skills to gather information on targets.
  • Applying Linux privilege escalation techniques to gain unauthorized access.
  • Using red team methodologies to simulate real-world attacks and exploit vulnerabilities.

Program Curriculum

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