Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Exghost

Posted inEthical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Python, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough
New OffSec Proving Grounds walkthrough. This time we tackle a machine called Exghost. This walkthrough involves: ☑️Brute forcing credentials ☑️Reading through a Wireshark packet capture file ☑️Crafting a malicious image to exploit ExifTool ☑️Exploiting a kernel vulnerability I had to get creative at the end and I leaned a bunch…

Multithreaded Port Scanner

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I am FAR from a developer so go easy on me. This is an attempt at a multithreaded port scanner. I have it down to about 40 seconds to scan all 65,535 port (using my PC). The threading was obviously the hard part and I relied on several code examples…