Self-study for eJPT (eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester) from eLearnSecurity. Pass your exam on the first attempt If you can’t afford the price of INE training follow these topics.

Before the Exam

Before starting the exam I recommend you to sleep well and after that have a great meal.

Remember to Take a shower before the Exam and clean your desk.

Go to the supermarket and buy some food and drinks for yourself and if you have a pet like me, buy food for it and clean its toilet.

If you have anything in your mind to do, do it before starting the exam.

Just clean your head!

Coffee?

Reload the machine…

Mobile Phone

Just turn it off while you are Hacking! You are being prepared for the real world 😛

Backups

Before starting, the exam verifies if you have backups of all virtual machines you need or tools, documentation, and binaries. If you can afford a dedicated external disk for all your security/certification stuff, do it!

Start Hacking – eJPT Certification

After you execute all procedures and your Lab is prepared click the Start button and enjoy your journey. You can do it!

Methodologies

Usually in certification labs or executing a penetration test on a client we have defined in our scope a subnet with a specified range of IPs.

Network Scanning

Before start scanning the network I usually execute some commands on my machine to verify what interface is associated with the VPN to verify my IP and verify my ARP table.

Networks can filter types of traffic or traffic to specific port numbers. Pay attention if you trying to get a reverse shell on a random port number, that port could be blocked.

What if the Network is blocking some types of traffic?

As I said networks can filter types of traffic like TCP/UDP/SCTP/ICMP or even IP, yes IP!

UDP traffic can be blocked only for a specific host and allowed for others inside the same subnet.

Or can be blocked on all subnets.

In these cases, we need to test the network for each host we’ve found.

Web Tools

ToolsDescriptionURL
RevShellshttps://www.revshells.com/
CyberChefhttps://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
SecListshttps://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
GTFOBinshttps://gtfobins.github.io/
Crackstationhttps://crackstation.net/
LOLBAShttps://lolbas-project.github.io/

Information Gathering

As we know it all starts with information gathering, we need to collect much data as we can from our network environment. In a lab environment, we don’t need to collect public information (OSINT) but we need all information related to our machines, like hostnames, ports, services/versions, usernames, and domains. Check the next chapter footprinting & scanning.

Read some articles about how to Map the Network using OSINT

Footprinting & Scanning

It’s time to start mapping all hosts and services, we can use Nmap to get all the information we need! Start by scanning the subnet ranges to detect live hosts and then scan each host to detect open ports and what services are running on them. Not all network banners expose the service version if some services don’t expose the versions try to find them, and some exploits only work on specific versions using specific hardware architectures.

Mapping the Network

Scanning each subnet using the Ping scan is faster to detecting live hosts, but some of them may not respond to ICMP requests in that case use a Syn scan.

OS fingerprinting and Port Scanning

After detecting live hosts on the network it’s time to enumerate what operating system is running on it, we can do it using the ping command but at this point, Nmap probably already detects it for you, if not use the parameter -O, and scan again.

ToolDescriptionArticle
Nmap
rustscan
eJPT tools for network scanning

Vulnerability Assessment

In this category, it’s all about your knowledge, if you can manually find vulnerabilities great if not use a scanner. Vulnerability scanners nowadays are easy to manage and detect a lot of vulnerabilities, there are no restrictions on what tools you can use on eJPT.

Always try to find a vulnerability by digging manually but if you can’t find it and that is normal we are learning! use a Nessus or OpenVAS they will help you find some entry points.

You have all the information you need on my blog, check here:

ToolDescriptionArticle
Nessus
OpenVAS
Nikto
eJPT tools for Vulnerability Assessment

Junior Penetration Tester – Web Attacks

Web applications can be tricky you must be comfortable with some basic techniques used to attack the server side and client side, I highly recommend you start learning all the necessary topics on Portswigger Web Security Academy, they have all you need to master this topic, and all for FREE!

Web Enumeration

Enumerate what?

Before everything learns HTTP, it’s all about how HTTP works!

After scanning the host you found port 80 open, you need to understand what service is running there and what version, if find an exploit to get a reverse shell amazing you are in!

But what if you don’t find anything?

You need to start enumerating all information related to the web server and web application running.

Web servers have specific files for configurations that can be exposed to the public if you find one that can help get a way in.

And Web applications?

Web applications can be static and dynamic, on static pages you enume

eJPT
url parameters

Web Servers

You should be familiar with some web servers and how to attack them, Apache is one of the most used web servers and it has a lot of well-known vulnerabilities. you should be able to enumerate the web server detect the Apache version and find an exploit online. Keep calm, I will help you find them in fact I compile a list for you.

Another service you can find is the application server TomCat, you can read my article about to attack a TomCat service.

Wait and the Nginx?

If you find it, probably the vulnerability is in the application or how it communicates with other internal services using localhost.

But! Always verify the Nginx version and search exploits available.

searchsploit nginx
ToolDescriptionArticle
gobuster
ffuf
feroxbuster

Web Applications / CMS

On eJPT the most common web CMS is WordPress, you should be familiar with the platform and enumerate users, plugins, and themes. After you have access you need to find a way to upload a PHP shell to control the web server or better upload a reverse shell, Metasploit can help with all these steps or do it manually.

ToolsDescriptionArticle
wpscanAttack WordPress Website

Network Attacks

Understand different scan types and how to brute-force network services,

Brute Force Services

ProtocolPortsArticle
FTP21
TELNET23
SSH22
SMB445, 139
RDP3389
NetBIOS135,137,138
RPC

Databases

eJPT – System Attacks

Crack Passwords

ToolDescriptionArticle
john the ripper
hashcat
unshadow

Metasploit

Metasploit Payloads Types

Meterpreter Commands List

sysinfo, ifconfig, route, getuid
getsystem (privesc)
bypassuac
download x /root/
upload x C:\\Windows
shell
use post/windows/gather/hashdump

Linux

Windows

eJPT Exploits

Pivoting

run autoroute -s 192.168.1.0/24
use auxiliary/scanner/portscan/tcp
set PORTS <ports>
set RHOSTS 192.168.1.95
run

Chisel Reverse Proxy: Pivoting Networks

TryHackMe Rooms

RoomDescriptionWalkthrough
Wreath
Kenobi
eJPT TryHackMe Rooms
https://www.poplabsec.com/ssh-penetration-testing

HAckThe Box Machines

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