[Note: This and future vlog posts might seem incoherent unless you actually watch the vlog. This text is mostly just additional docs for future reference.]

I have been mostly been thinking about how to do documentation.

Get all tools ready

  • Documentation
    • KeepNote
    • Dropbox Paper
    • Github / Markdown
    • Word w/ Offsec pentest report from start?
  • Excel or some sort of network diagram for recon findings

One of the things I forgot to mention during the video was that I have recently been doing post-assessment for an actual pen-test that I have done previously and found that I had ... misplaced ... some of the exploit/recon code that I had written in C# for the test. Lesson learned: Keep everything organized and do not trust your future self to remember anything. DOCUMENT EVER... ALL THE THINGS!

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Starting to learn to think like an attacker, from the OffSec pentest report template:

John added administrator and root level accounts on all systems compromised. In addition to the administrative/root access, a Metasploit meterpreter service was installed on the machine to ensure that additional access could be established.

Pentest standard - http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Main_Page

Windows VulnHub - Scream writeup by RastaMouse

Lessons learned from above:

  • Always do UDP scans also to find rarer services like TFTP
  • How to craft MS-DOS (and other) raw payloads with msfpayload and other tools

OffSec Exam Guide - https://www.offensive-security.com/exams/#!index.md

You can only use Metasploit Auxiliary, Exploit, and Post modules against one target machine of your choice

You can use the following against all of the target machines:
multi handler (aka exploit/multi/handler)
meterpreter
msfpayload & msfencode
msfvenom
T minus 0 days.