Hacking Insights by Max Bautista

Task 1 – What does the 3-letter acronym FTP stand for?

A: File Transfer Protocol

Task 2 – Which port does the FTP service listen on usually?

A: 21

Task 3 – FTP sends data in the clear, without any encryption. What acronym is used for a later protocol designed to provide similar functionality to FTP but securely, as an extension of the SSH protocol?

A: SFTP

Task 4 – What is the command we can use to send an ICMP echo request to test our connection to the target?

A: ping

Task 5 – From your scans, what version is FTP running on the target?

Started up our machine got IP 10.129.1.14 and ran nmap

A: vsftpd 3.0.3

Task 6 – From your scans, what OS type is running on the target?

Since I ran -A in the previous command I also got that output

A: Unix

Task 7 – What is the command we need to run in order to display the ‘ftp’ client help menu?

A: ftp -?

Task 8 – What is username that is used over FTP when you want to log in without having an account?

A: anonymous

Task 9 – What is the response code we get for the FTP message ‘Login successful’?

Didn’t recall this from memory so I ftp’d to the machine and logged in with anonymous:anonymous

A: 230

Task 10 – There are a couple of commands we can use to list the files and directories available on the FTP server. One is dir. What is the other that is a common way to list files on a Linux system.

Ran this in last screenshot just out of habit when connecting to ftp

A: ls

Task 11 – What is the command used to download the file we found on the FTP server?

A: get

Submit Flag:

Pulled the file to my machine and read it

A: 035db21c881520061c53e0536e44f815