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Network Attacks: Privilege Escalation

In this lab, you’ll practice privilege escalation. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to perform basic privilege escalation by leveraging tools for both Windows and Linux.

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Labs - Network Attacks: Privilege Escalation

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Level
Beginner
Duration
1h 5m
Released
Nov 28, 2022

Lab author

Lab Author: Rishalin Pillay
Rishalin Pillay
Rishalin is an active author, who has authored a number of courses found on Pluralsight. In addition to video courses, he has authored two books titled "Learn Penetration Testing" and "Offensive Shellcode from Scratch". He serves as a technical contributor to many books ranging from Dark Web Analysis, Kali Linux, Offensive Security, SECOPS, and study guides across Networking and Microsoft technologies. He holds the Microsoft Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made ... moretowards the Cybersecurity Industry. At present he is a security specialist at Google (Chronicle) where he works as part of the Google Threat Intelligence team.
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Getting Started

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

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Linux Privilege Escalation

In this challenge you will explore how to escalate privileges using the SUID (Set User Identification) permission. You will also explore how to leverage LinPeas to identify binaries that have the SUID permission set.

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Windows Privilege Escalation

In this challenge you will explore how to escalate privileges using unquoted service paths and excessive service permissions. The tool that will be used is WinPEAS.

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The Last Challenge

Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

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  • Basic Networking Skills
  • Basic Linux and Windows skills

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