<aside> 👉 Exploiting a computer system involves identifying and utilizing vulnerabilities in the software or hardware to gain unauthorized access or control over the system. Majority of identifying vulnerabilites in Kioptrix have been done so already and can be referenced here 👉

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Table of contents

<aside> 📌 Reminders

• Most of these notes are in junction with Kioptrix
• Not all of this is step-by-step with PNPT - Different versions of Kali
• Post exploitation is not mentioned here, but being able to show route, arp, or IP’s in rooted machines is some basic post reporting </aside>

Reverse Shells vs Bind Shells

🐚 R3verse Shell

🫔 Bind Shell

Staged vs Non-Staged Payloads

Payload - Data used to exploit or gain the shell of a machine.

🏗️Non-staged

🏗️ Staged

Gaining Root with Metasploit

⚙️Metasploiting Kioptrix w/ Reverse Shell

Manual Exploitation

💼 OpenLuck

Brute Force Attacks

📮 Hydra