Tutorial-Cyber Defense Introduction -TryHackMe Walkthrough

IritT
3 min readOct 4, 2024

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Learn how to use a TryHackMe room to start your upskilling in cyber security.

Site Link: https://tryhackme.com/r/room/tutorial

Task 1 Starting your first machine

On TryHackMe you’ll learn by starting and hacking machines

Let’s start your AttackBox, a web-based machine used to attack other machines you start on tasks.

  1. Click the blue
  1. button at the top of this room; the AttackBox is what you will use to access target machines you start on tasks such as this one.
  2. Start the target machine shown on this task and wait 1 minute forit to configure.
  3. Copy the IP Address of the machine that you just started on this task, then on the AttackBox (right-hand side), open up Firefox (on the AttackBox) and paste the IP Address into the URL bar.
  1. The machines you start on tasks (left hand-side) are the “target machines” and are accessed by the AttackBox (right hand-side).

(Advanced) Alternatively you can access machines via OpenVPN

When you’ve finished with a machine in any room, make sure to stop it by clicking the red “Terminate” button.

Answer the questions below

  1. 1 Follow the steps in this task. What is the flag text shown on the website of the machine you started on this task?
    A flag is just a piece of text that’s used to verify you’ve performed a certain action. In security challenges, users are asked to find flags to prove that they’ve successfully hacked a machine (Question Hint Remember to paste the IP Address of the machine you started on the task into FireFox on the AttackBox).

Answer: flag{connection_verified}

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