Reference no: EM132534920

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.

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

OVA File	MD5 checksum	Size
AssignmentHost1.ova	57172f2e99141051d3b11aff2936687e	3.8GB
AssignmentHost2.ova	059c24a1a8c4a57afc25ca40a592f58b	3.8GB
AssignmentHost3.ova	45086f22187a2fb655a971a17dd60ca3	0.83GB
AssignmentHost4.ova	254302751c84852f4377bb3988fe6d5d	1.3GB

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:- Penetration testing.rar