The Ethical Hacking Lab provides a controlled environment for hands-on penetration testing and offensive security training. It focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, conducting exploitation, and testing post-exploitation techniques using Kali Linux and industry-standard tools.

🔎 Skills Learned:

✅ Reconnaissance & Information Gathering
✅ Vulnerability Assessment & Exploitation
✅ Password Cracking & Spoofing Techniques
✅ Network Traffic Analysis & Post-Exploitation
✅ Red Teaming Strategies & Ethical Hacking Methodologies

🛠 Tools Used:

🔹 Recon: Whois, The Harvester, Netdiscover
🔹 Scanning & Exploitation: Nmap, OpenVAS, Metasploit
🔹 Password Attacks: John the Ripper, Aircrack-ng
🔹 Traffic Analysis: Wireshark
🔹 Payload Creation & Post-Exploitation: Msfvenom, EternalBlue

🖥 System Configuration & Reconnaissance

📌 Host Configuration: /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname setup
📌 Domain Lookups & Email Collection using Whois & The Harvester
📌 Port Scanning & Subnet Discovery using Nmap & Unicornscan

💀 Exploitation & Attacks

📌 Vulnerability Scanning via OpenVAS
📌 Post-Exploitation Techniques (EternalBlue, Timestamp Evasion, Keylogging)
📌 Payload Creation & Wireless Attacks with Aircrack-ng
📌 Password Cracking using dictionary attacks & hash techniques