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Ethical Hacking
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Ethical Hacking

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Florian Dalwigk
July 2026
Intermediate
729 pages
33h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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19    Final Challenge

This final challenge combines multiple disciplines from offensive security, including OSINT, password cracking, web exploitation, client-side attacks, file upload abuse, and privilege escalation. The objective is to follow a realistic attack chain, starting with intelligence gathering and ending with full system compromise.

Each subsection represents a different phase of a real-world investigation or penetration test. By carefully analyzing files, extracting metadata, exploiting misconfigurations, and chaining vulnerabilities together, it is possible to uncover all required flags and fully compromise the target environment.

The following sections document the complete step-by-step solution process, including the tools used, ...

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ISBN: 9781808654053