Project Crimson Week 3
Recap
Covered basic pwn.college challenges and worked on some of the things we talked about in week one
| Challenge | Description | Takeaways |
|---|---|---|
| First Shell Script | Write a shell script and execute it | Understand how to chain commands in a script |
| Executable Shell Scripts | Modify the file permissions to make a script executable | Basic introduction to Inode and file permissions as well as chmod |
| Scripting with Arguments | Reverse the arguments in a script and print them out | Learn what arguments are and play with variables |
This Week
We're going to try a different hands on approach. Bandit Labs is a beginner friendly hacker challenge designed to get you some hands on experience with Linux and with solving challenges. We are going to run through the levels and. These challenges will only work if you read the Descriptions and investigate the hints you are given. I will help you out with some guidance when you get stuck but it's going to be on you to Understand the challenges. I have made Write-ups on the first 10 challenges today which you can follow if you get absolutely stuck but don't lean on them too heavily or you won't learn the key skill here.
SSH
The first step in the challenges today with be to ssh into their server. The 0th Challenge is just to ssh in. This should be available on Mac, it certainly will be on Windows and Linux systems. You will need to open up your terminal and man ssh to figure out how to connect. The only nonstandard part here is that the ssh is on port 2220 instead of the default 22
Writeups
Bandit Labs 1.md Bandit Labs 2.md Bandit Labs 3.md Bandit Labs 4.md Bandit Labs 5.md Bandit Labs 6.md Bandit Labs 7.md Bandit Labs 8.md Bandit Labs 9.md Bandit Labs 10.md
Next Time
- More of the same pwn.college challenges on some new topics
- Some basic forensics challenges to learn the commands we already know a little better
- Hands on help getting the VM environments on your computer running
- Hands on help setting up dual boot or getting a full Linux distro running on your machine.