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3809ICT Applied Network Security - Griffith University

The objective of this assignment is to gain knowledge and understanding of penetration testing through research and practical experience. This understanding is to be demonstrated by submission of a formal technical report of a penetration test.

You are also required to peer-assess your final submission and reflect on your assignment and how each member of your group has contributed to the final submission (this will remain confidential). This gives you the opportunity to show an ongoing reflection of what you and your team members have learned from this assignment, and also on what you need to enhance your knowledge and skills on security and penetration testing. Each member of the team should be awarded a mark out of 10 for peer assessment. This will be submitted as a separate document.

Task

The main task is to conduct a penetration test of a network. You will be required to write a report of your penetration test results. The assignment network will contain several host machines and on the machines there will be flags (text strings) that you will need to identify. Each flag starts with the characters FLAG. For each of the flags you locate you should write up the process that you used to

access and find the flag. Note that some flags are encrypted, and you will need to decrypt them.

You should set your Kali machine's local IP address to 192.168.45.1.You can verify whether your downloaded files are correct by checking the following:
Host Checksums

Overview of the hosts:
Host 1: 3 flags. Difficulty: Normal.
Host 2: 3 flags. Difficulty: Hell.
Host 3: 3 flags. Difficulty: Inferno.
Host 4: 3 flags. Difficulty: Nightmare.

Attachment:- Assignment Specification.rar