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Write-Up 07- TryHackMe-ToolsRus

Muhammad Luqman
7 min readJul 10, 2020

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Pentesting Tools

Using the right tools during your pentesting projects can save a lot of time and enable you to achieve your target efficiently. Out of thousands of tools out in the wild, some tools always come handy while footprinting, scanning, and gaining access to vulnerable machines. This write-up is based on the room named “ToolsRus” in which some most common tools are used to get a foothold on a vulnerable web server.

Objectives

Use the following mentioned tools to capture a flag present on the vulnerable webserver

  1. Dirbuster
  2. Hydra
  3. Nmap
  4. Nikto
  5. Metasploit

Learning Outcomes

Solving this CTF challenge will enable us to familiarize and reinforce our knowledge about the aforementioned tools

P.S: I highly recommend you, folks, to search these tools individually and get yourself acquainted with the core functionality of these tools, in this way you would be able to better understand these tools and use them in different scenarios. Try to solve this room on your own and if you get stuck you can always use a little help by consulting this writeup.

Getting Started

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Muhammad Luqman
Muhammad Luqman

Written by Muhammad Luqman

Information Security Enthusiast | MS InfoSec | CEH | Cybersecurity Writer

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