CHALLENGE INFORMATION

Platform: TryHackMe
Path: Complete Beginner
Module: Complete Beginner Introduction
Room: Introductory Researching
Description: A brief introduction to research skills for pentesting.

Introduction

Question 1: Read the Introduction

No answer needed

Example Research Question

Question 1: In the Burp Suite Program that ships with Kali Linux, what mode would you use to manually send a request (often repeating a captured request numerous times)?

Repeater

Question 2: What hash format are modern Windows login passwords stored in?

NTLM

Question 3: What are automated tasks called in Linux?

Cron Jobs

Question 4: What number base could you use as a shorthand for base 2 (binary)?

Base 16

Question 5: If a password hash starts with $6$, what format is it (Unix variant)?

sha512crypt

Vulnerability Searching

Question 1: What is the CVE for the 2020 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in WPForms?

CVE-2020-10385

Question 2: There was a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability found in the Debian version of Apache Tomcat, back in 2016. What’s the CVE for this vulnerability?

CVE-2016-1240

Question 3: What is the very first CVE found in the VLC media player?

CVE-2007-0017

Question 4: If you wanted to exploit a 2020 buffer overflow in the sudo program, which CVE would you use?

CVE-2019-18634

Manual Pages

Question 1: SCP is a tool used to copy files from one computer to another. What switch would you use to copy an entire directory?

-r

Question 2: fdisk is a command used to view and alter the partitioning scheme used on your hard drive. What switch would you use to list the current partitions?

-l

Question 3: Nano is an easy-to-use text editor for Linux. There are arguably better editors (Vim, being the obvious choice); however, nano is a great one to start with. What switch would you use to make a backup when opening a file with nano?

-B

Question 4: Netcat is a basic tool used to manually send and receive network requests. What command would you use to start netcat in listen mode, using port 12345?

nc -l -p 12345

Final Thoughts

Question 1: Research Complete!

No answer needed