Challenge Overview

An employee at a local pharmaceutical company has stored all the information about a new drug release on a laptop. The company realized the laptop data was compromised. The employee feels that the competing company has hired a hacker to access the laptop and get the information about the new drug before its release. The pharmaceutical company has reached out to your cybersecurity firm and requested that you find out how the attacker could access the file in the system. You are to identify the vulnerable file and find what account the attacker used to gain access.

What You Will Learn

  • Network scanning & service enumeration to discover reachable hosts, open ports, and SSH access points.
  • Exploitation and initial access techniques (using SSH or exposed services) to gain a foothold on a Windows target.
  • Privilege escalation and account forensics to identify which user was abused and how the attacker elevated rights.
  • File integrity and cryptographic verification (hashing) to locate the sensitive file, prove compromise, and report the vulnerable artifact.

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