🔐 Cybersecurity Vulnerable Machine Lab – Solution Write-ups

This repository contains structured and academically documented penetration testing walkthroughs for vulnerable virtual machines and online cybersecurity labs. Each write-up demonstrates a full attack methodology, beginning with reconnaissance and proceeding through enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation analysis.

The goal of this project is to provide clear, research-oriented documentation for learning and teaching ethical hacking, network security principles, and real-world vulnerability exploitation techniques.

📁 What You Will Find

• Detailed step-by-step solutions for vulnerable machines from platforms such as:
  • TryHackMe
  • HackTheBox
  • VulnHub
• Practical demonstrations of exploitation including:
  • Service enumeration
  • Web application attacks
  • Misconfigurations and weak credential exploitation
  • Local and remote privilege escalation
• Command outputs, explanations, methodology, and reasoning behind each decision
• Documentation aligned with standard offensive security processes and security research conventions

🎯 Objectives

• Strengthen practical understanding of cybersecurity concepts
• Demonstrate structured penetration testing workflows
• Create a reusable reference for students and professionals studying cybersecurity
• Promote responsible, legal, and ethical security testing

⚠️ Ethical Notice

All techniques demonstrated in this repository are performed in legally controlled environments for educational and research purposes only. Unauthorized access to systems you do not own or have permission to test is illegal and unethical.