Fort Payne Cyber Security – AP Cybersecurity
Packet Detective: The Suspicious Login
Created by Mr. Marks for Fort Payne Cyber Security
Your mission
- Enter your name and decode the mission access key in CyberChef.
- Read the incident briefing inside the Simulated Training VM.
- Investigate network traffic in a Wireshark-style packet viewer.
- Compare suspicious connections with the server's authentication log.
- Answer eight questions in the investigation terminal.
- Correct any answers that need work, then download your completion PDF.
Plan for about 35–45 minutes. There is no timer. Everything here is a simulation with made-up data, and nothing you type leaves this device.
Begin the investigation
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Access challenge: unlock the Simulated Training VM
Analyst:
The training VM is locked. Decode this mission message to get your access key.
Simulated Training VM
Commands here run only inside this lab.
Analyst:
0 of 8 answers correct
Case closed, !
You completed a simulated packet and authentication-log investigation. All eight answers are correct.
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