Objective:

• Students will analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks.

Standards:

CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
2.4 – Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity

• Application Attacks
  • Replay
  • Privilege escalation
  • Directory traversal

Guiding Question:

What are some common application attacks including replay, privilege escalation and directory traversal and how can you defend against them?

Resources:

• Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx and Lab – Directory Traversal.pptx Presentations available on Google Classroom

Assignment:

1. Review the Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx presentation, if necessary.
2. Complete the Lab – Directory Traversal.pptx Activity in class using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
3. To confirm completion the lab activity, upload a screenshot displaying your Windows system web browser displaying the “Secret Message” you created (as demonstrated in Slide 15 of the Lab presentation) to today’s Google Classroom post.

Assigned: November 21st, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: November 24th, 2025

Objective:

• Students will analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks.

Standards:

CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
2.4 – Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity

• Application Attacks
  • Replay
  • Privilege escalation
  • Directory traversal

Guiding Question:

What are some common application attacks including replay, privilege escalation and directory traversal and how can you defend against them?

Resources:

• Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx and Lab – Pass the Hash.pptx Presentations available on Google Classroom

Assignment:

1. Review the Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx presentation, if necessary.
2. Complete the Lab – Pass the Hash.pptx Activity in class using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
3. To confirm completion the lab activity, upload a screenshot displaying your successful administrative login in the Meterpreter session on the Kali Linux machine to today’s Google Classroom post.
   • Note: You will need to complete yesterday’s Privilege Escalation lab to locate the Windows Password Hashes for use in this lab!

Assigned: November 20th, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: November 21st, 2025

Objective:

• Students will analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks.

Standards:

CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
2.4 – Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity

• Application Attacks
  • Replay
  • Privilege escalation
  • Directory traversal

Guiding Question:

What are some common application attacks including replay, privilege escalation and directory traversal and how can you defend against them?

Resources:

• Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx Presentation available on Google Classroom

Assignment:

1. Read the Lesson 2.4.11 – Application Attacks Part 1.pptx presentation in today’s class.
2. Complete the Lab – Privilege Escalation.pptx Activity in class using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
3. To confirm completion the lab activity, upload a screenshot displaying your successfully escalated privileges in the Meterpreter session on the Kali Linux machine to today’s Google Classroom post.

Assigned: November 19th, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: November 20th, 2025

Objective:

• Students will analyze potential indicators associated with network attacks.

Standards:

CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
2.4 – Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity

• Network Attacks
  • Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
    • Amplified
    • Reflected

Guiding Question:

What are 3 types of DDoS attacks and how can you defend against them?

Resources:

• 2.4.8 – DoS and DDoS.pptx and Lab – Denial of Service.pptx Presentations available on Google Classroom

Assignment:

1. Review the 2.4.8 – DoS and DDoS.pptx presentation.
2. Complete the Lab – Denial of Service.pptx Activity in class using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
3. To confirm completion the lab activity, upload a screenshot (with today’s date) of the exploit running in the Terminal window on the Kali system confirming that the Victim’s Windows 7 system “seems down” from the active Metasploit session in the Kali environment to today’s Google Classroom post.

Assigned: November 12th, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: November 13th, 2025