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Both numerous remote vulnerabilities and several avenues for privilege escalation are present on this machine. Since VirtualBox is what I used for all of my testing, that is the suggested platform. It is said to work with VMware as well, but I haven’t personally tested this.

This virtual machine is designed with novice penetration testers in mind. The VM should, ideally, have the ideal level of complexity for beginners.

Open Ports

21/tcp open ftp ProFTPD 1.3.3c
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.2
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 (Ubuntu)

We used searchsploit commond to search ProFTPD 1.3.3c on ExploitDB.

And for that, we discovered two exploits. There was a backdoor in ProFTPD 1.3.3c. A backdoor is a malicious code hidden in the source code. Furthermore, Metasploit-framework is capable of exploiting this Backdoor Command Execution vulnerability.

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