A complete TryHackMe walkthrough, documented end to end: reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation and remediation — written in Markdown and published as a clean PDF-ready document. Every command is included so anyone can reproduce the lab in their own isolated environment.
✓Full attack chain, step by step — no skipped commands
✓Every finding paired with its fix and hardening note
A full penetration test of the deliberately vulnerable Metasploitable2 Linux machine, run end to end under PTES: recon, the VSFTPD 2.3.4 backdoor to instant root, shadow-hash extraction and cracking — closing with a prioritized remediation table.
✓Full-port Nmap recon mapped the attack surface
✓Backdoor exploited, hashes cracked with John the Ripper
An end-to-end assessment of an unpatched Windows 7 lab machine: SMBv1 exposure fingerprinted, EternalBlue exploited to a SYSTEM shell, NTLM hashes dumped and cracked offline — then documented fixes for patching, protocol hardening and password policy.