Revising the approach
Let us summarize the entire penetration test step by step:
- In the very first step, we did an NMAP scan over the target.
- We found that VSFTPD 2.3.4 is running on port
21
and is vulnerable to attack. - We exploited VSFTPD 2.3.5 running on port
21
. - We got the shell access to the target running at
192.168.10.112
. - We created a Linux meterpreter shell and copied it to the
/var/www
directory of Apache. Next, we ran thewget
command from the shell and downloaded our newly created meterpreter shell onto the target. - We assigned full privileges to the shell backdoor file via
chmod 777 backdoor.elf
. - Setting up an exploit handler in a separate ...
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