SMB penetration testing guide covering share enumeration, authentication testing, Null session exploitation, and SMB vulnerability assessment using tools like Enum4linux, Smbclient, and Impacket for Windows network security testing.
FTP penetration testing guide covering anonymous login testing, brute force attacks, banner grabbing, and file transfer exploitation using tools like Nmap, Hydra, and Netcat for security assessments and ethical hacking.
Ephemeral 2 is a medium-level box involving Samba exploitation, reverse shells, and privilege escalation. Key steps include discovering open ports, brute-forcing SMB credentials, exploiting a "magic script," and leveraging cron jobs and writable profile scripts to gain root access..