FTP analysis

In this section, we'll take a look at how FTP works, the differences between the active mode and the passive mode, and how to transfer files securely with FPTS and SFTP.

We'll start a capture once again and connect to an FTP server that does not use encryption. So, this server is a Belarus-hosted server that has some Linux ISOs on it, and it allows anonymous connections. I'll just log in with anonymous, and we'll use port 21 and click on Quickconnect:

We can see that we've logged in. It states that it does not use TLS, and it lists the root directory:

What we'll do is stop that capture, and if we scroll down through the packets ...

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