🎯 What You'll Learn
- Analyse session token strength and scope
- Exploit session fixation and hijacking
- Abuse insecure cookie attributes
- Test logout and timeout handling
Overview
Even strong credentials don’t help if sessions are mishandled. This lab targets session generation, storage and termination to hijack authenticated users.
Core Topics
- Token entropy analysis
- Cookie security flags
- Fixation vs hijacking
- Session invalidation
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.