Planting a Backdoor

Introduction

The Planting a Backdoor module provides you with the instructions and devices to develop your hands-on skills in the following topic:

• Working with backdoor

Lab time: It will take approximately 60 minutes to complete this lab.

Objectives

The following objective is covered in this lab:

• System hacking

Exercise 1 - Working with Backdoor

A backdoor is a way to access critical and sensitive information from a system in an unauthorised manner. An attacker can plant a backdoor on a system by accessing it remotely.

In this exercise, PLABWIN801 is the attacker and PLABWIN10 is the victim. You will plant the backdoor named “netcat” on PLABWIN10. You will configure TFTP server and then plant the backdoor.