Challenge Overview

James, who is part of the R&D team of the company, has allegedly stored a recording of a confidential R&D meeting recently in his company-issued database system. The recording contains highly confidential information about the latest product due to be released by the company. You are working in the company as a Cyber Security Analyst and are a highly trusted member of the CEO’s inner circle. Your task is to gain access to the targeted file and stop the revenge by a malicious employee. This Challenge requires knowledge of Hydra, system hacking, system misconfigurations, and service exploitation. Players will demonstrate the use of privilege escalation and telnet cracking techniques. The target machine runs on a Linux Ubuntu OS with an IP address of 10.10.1.191.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying open ports and services on the target system using tools like Nmap.
  • Discovering sensitive information or credentials from web application endpoints.
  • Cracking Telnet login credentials using tools like Hydra.
  • Leveraging access to the MySQL service through misconfigurations.
  • Exploiting improper sudo permissions (e.g., sudo mysql) to gain full root access on the Linux system.

Program Curriculum

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