Just a quick post to identify a frustrating problem in Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide.
Chapter five – The Joy of Exploitation – “Exploiting an Ubuntu Machine” simply doesn’t work. The book assumes Ubuntu 9.04 ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ Operating System comes installed with Apache and Samba, which it doesn’t. ’Apt-Get Install’ doesn’t work and I have not found a solution to this online.
This is all Nmap could offer:
All 1000 scanned ports on ubuntulab.home are closed
Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details
Apparently, this version of Ubuntu comes with all ports closed by default. I’ve tried opening ports, turning off the firewall (I believe off is default), installing software, dual booting, using another VM and so on.
Nothing worked.
I don’t think this exploit is worth the time it would take to configure the necessary vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 9.04. It also feels counterintuitive to expend a great deal of effort making something hackable.