Introduction

If you need a reverse-shell from one of the vulnerable Hacking-Lab services back to your local computer, you must connect to our vulnerable systems using OpenVPN. The vulnerable services are firewalled and therefore you cannot connect back to an internet ip address.

Video

• https://www.hacking-lab.com/blog/reverse-shell-vpn

Pre-Requirement

Please be aware, you MUST be authenticated with your browser in one of the Hacking-Lab 2.0 applications, before VPN access will be granted!

Usage

Please run the start_openvpn.sh script as root using the sudo ./start_openvpn.sh command and test your connection

You should be able to ping the nessus host, once your VPN is up an running.

Troubleshooting

1. no such file or directory: /usr/sbin/openvpn: install the openvpn client (e.g. sudo apt install openvpn)
2. UDP link remote: [AF_INET]152.96.14.70:1194: make sure you are still logged in to the hacking-lab using a browser from the same IP address
3. ERROR: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tun: Operation not permitted (errno=1): make sure you are running the OpenVPN client with root rights (e.g. sudo ./start_openvpn.sh)
4. Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: /some/path/Hacking-Lab-2.0.ovpn: make sure to call the start_openvpn.sh script from the correct directory

Once you connect successfully, you should see the message Initialization Sequence Completed.

Hacking-Lab Kookarai Pentesting Linux

The VPN is pre-configured on the latest Kookarai Pentesting Linux Get a copy from https://kookarai.idocker.hacking-lab.com/

More Information

Please visit https://www.hacking-lab.com/ to find more information.