Ethical Hacking Learning Path

Learn the techniques used by malicious hackers to assess your vulnerabilities.

18 hours, 44 minutes

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About Ethical Hacking

This learning path teaches you the necessary hacking skills to conduct a formal penetration test. As you progress through 12 courses, you'll build core pentesting skills such as intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, device exploitation, stealth techniques and more. Upon completion, you'll have the knowledge and skills to carry out a penetration test against an organization to identify weaknesses and potential avenues of attack.

 

Syllabus

Advanced Adversary Tactics - Defense Evasion

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab covers multiple techniques related to defense evasion including crashing an antivirus to avoid detection, modifying PAM to allow for a backdoored password, and going through multiple methods of identifying virtual environments.
Advanced Adversary Tactics - Privilege Escalation XSS

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab will cover using XSS techniques to steal tokens from other users and using these tokens to escalate to admin privileges.
Advanced Adversary Tactics - Reconnaissance and Resource Development

Lab - 00:30:00
The first steps of the MITRE ATT&CK chain focus on learning about a target and gathering information for future attacks. This sort of information gathering can be instrumental to the success of future operations. For example, learning that a target uses a standard IT management software could cause an APT to target this software in a supply-chain vulnerability attack later on. In this lab we’ll take a look at some of the social engineering techniques and tools that can help aid Reconnaissance and Resource Development.
Advanced Adversary Tactics - Persistence

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab covers multiple techniques related to persistence including tampering with desktop autostart application, .bashrc files, trojanizing binaries, and infecting a USB drive.
Advanced Adversary Tactics - Persistence 2

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab covers multiple techniques related to persistence including creating a malicious browser extension and modify system processes.
Advanced Adversary Tactics - Pivoting with Proxychains

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab covers configuring and using proxychains to pivot between machines on a network. The lab simulates pivoting that might occur were a raspberry pi or similar device added to a network.
Ethical Hacking Process

Course - 01:08:00
Passive Intelligence Sources, Tools and Techniques

Course - 01:30:00
Understanding TCP/IP Communications

Course - 00:53:00
Network Reconnaissance

Course - 00:39:00
Stealthy Network Reconnaissance

Course - 00:30:00
Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities

Course - 00:53:00
Sniffing

Course - 01:02:00
Cracking Passwords

Course - 00:37:00
Covert Channels and IDS Evasion

Course - 00:40:00
Using Trojans and Backdoors

Course - 00:32:00
Exploit Writing Fundamentals: Basic Buffer Overflow Exploit

Course - 00:53:00
Exploiting Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

Course - 01:11:00
Learn to strike at your targets’ weak points with this course on exploiting web application vulnerabilities. This course demonstrates various techniques of exploiting the most common web application flaws, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) injection.
Sandworm APT Exercise

Course - 02:42:00
Sandworm APT is an advanced hacking group that has been active since at least 2009. Most famous for their attacks on Ukrainian electrical companies and the NotPetya attacks in 2016, they are a Russian-backed threat group

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How to claim CPEs

Should you complete this learning path, you’ll be able to download a certificate of completion. Use this to claim your CPEs or CPUs.

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