To proceed in the workshop you need to have some tools ready. You can either setup a kali virtual machine (VM) which has all the required tools pre installed, or you can manually install the required tools.

After getting the tools ready, you must create an account on tryhackme.com and setup the VPN.

Setting up Kali Linux VM:

You can follow the following video tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX75Z-4MEoM

In a nutshell, you can download kali linux pre-built virtual machines and just load them up in VMware/VirtualBox. (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines)

Alternatively, you can manually install the following tools in Windows/Linux.

Tools Required:

1. nmap

   For Windows:

   Download the nmap installer from https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.93-setup.exe

   For Ubuntu:

   Run the following command in terminal

   sudo apt-get install nmap
   

2. Burp Suite

   Download the installer from https://portswigger.net/burp/releases/professional-community-2022-9-5?requestededition=community

3. Gobuster

   Download from https://github.com/OJ/gobuster/releases/tag/v3.3.0

   (Available for all platforms)

4. SecLists

   clone/download the repo https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

   https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt

5. Python

   For Windows:

   Download the python installer from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.0/python-3.11.0-amd64.exe

   Python Script:

   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sarthak-diwan/mr_robot_wordpress_brute/main/brute2.py

   Password for Wordpress:

   ER28-0652

   For Ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get install python3
   

6. Ncat

   https://nmap.org/dist/ncat-portable-5.59BETA1.zip

TryHackMe Setup: