To be honest, I’m here because of an in-class assignment knowing full well my intutions are not where they need to be for a medium difficulty CTF lab when I don’t think my institution really looked at this from the angle of “several students ok but not great at PenTesting”.
In my defense, I’m also dealing with issues involving VPN connections to the network itself as well as a consistent issue with machine/port going down throughout the day; case in point this morning when my foothold port on the .100 node went down due to a potential DOS/Password Change and I lost a good several hours waiting for the machine to re-boot itself. Hopefully that I’ve gotten these first few flags now I’ll be able to navigate a bit better onto the network, however, if not, it’s not the end of the world.