Day 6 · Week 1

Network pentesting foundations

Work through introductory network pentesting and Nmap material in TryHackMe's Jr Penetration Tester path.

Challenges completed

Completed Network Reconnaissance: Passive Reconnaissance room in THM

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What I learned

  • What active/passive Reconnaissance is
  • Difference between passive vs active

Commands, tools, and techniques

  • whois
  • dig
  • nslookup
  • curl -s
  • jq .
  • DNSDumpster
  • crt.sh
  • Shodan.io
  • ping
  • traceroute
  • nc

Problems and dead ends

Explain what did not work and why.

What I will revisit

NMAP material in THM