EC-Council LPT Master case studies

EC-Council LPT Master · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The Licensed Penetration Tester (Master), or LPT (Master), is EC-Council's top-tier penetration testing credential, delivered through the CPENT program and built on the Advanced Penetration Testing Cyber Range (ECCAPT). It is aimed at experienced ethical hackers, penetration testers, network and firewall administrators, security testers, SOC analysts, and other security professionals who want to prove they can operate against hardened, defended environments rather than flat lab networks. The EC-Council LPT Master case studies are 5 cases and about 5,018 words.

Subsidiary subnet discovered mid-engagement: scope, metrics or momentum?

Northwind Freight has contracted a three-week external and internal penetration test covering 1,850 assets across two /20 ranges plus a single Active Directory forest. The statement of work ties the test to PCI DSS v4.0 segmentation checks and states that the retest in 90 days will be scored "using the same methodology".

907 words, about 5 min 2

Blind SQL injection against a live storefront with a 40,000-order day

Verdant Retail runs a public storefront behind a WAF that blocks most commodity payloads. On day 2 of a five-day test you confirm a time-based blind SQL injection in /search?q=: the payload ' AND SLEEP(5)-- returns in 5.4 s, while the same request against a static page returns in 0.2 s.

974 words, about 5 min 3

A disputed Critical: writing a report that survives a hostile reading

Meridian Health's IT director disputes your Critical finding of unauthenticated SQL injection in the patient-portal API at /api/v2/lookup, arguing "the WAF blocked it in production and the app sits behind MFA anyway". Your evidence is a 200 response containing 12 rows of clinician usernames, a sqlmap run using --technique=U , and a screen recording captured through the WAF.

1,035 words, about 5 min 4

Weaponising a stack overflow on a warehouse pick-line service

During an internal test at Helios Logistics you find a custom 32-bit Windows service, WHSE-SYNC.EXE, listening on TCP 7402 on 46 warehouse workstations. There is no source code and no test environment.

1,020 words, about 5 min 5

No external path, two days left: a public gist and a marketing subdomain

Aurelia Bank has booked seven days of external testing. Days 1-4 yield only hardened TLS and a VPN portal with no exploitable issues.

1,082 words, about 5 min