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Hiding in plain sight

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Hiding in plain sight

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at Port 1524 on Metasploitable. nmap -PS -sV - p1524 10.0.2.8, and it's reported there's a Metasploitable root shell. Let's see. telnet 10.0.2.8 1524, and we're in root at Metasploitable. And it is root. Someone set up a convenient, quick shell access for themselves and hoped it would be hidden. We don't need to exploit a target if someone's left a door open for us.

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