Welcome
Victor Coil Portfolio/Project Archive
About Me
A bit about me…
Whoami
Hello, and welcome to my site. I am Victor Coil, a cybersecurity enthusiast actively seeking an entry-level position in the Cybersecurity field. I currently hold a bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNA, and am currently studying for the CompTIA CySA+ Certification. I have also furthered my education through a handful of master courses. Outside of the classroom, I participated in the Cybersecurity competitions Hivestorm and the National Cyber League, where I finished in the top 3% of the team’s competition.
My Vision
To become an exceptional Blue Teamer in the Cybersecurity field. I strive to continuously enhance my technical skills and knowledge to be able to effectively defend organizations. I also aim to use this website to share projects, valuable lessons, and advice. In the chance of being able to raise awareness and/or help others with the projects and reports that I make.
Projects
These are the projects i’ve done
Click on the titles to access the lab Documentation or GitHub.
Azure Honeypot
- Extracted Windows Event Viewer metadata with PowerShell, forwarding it to a third-party API for geodata
- Configured Azure Log Analytics Workspaces to ingest custom logs containing geodata
- Visualized global RDP Brute Force attacks on a world map for insights into attack locations and magnitudes
Enhanced Logging and Intrusion Detection
- Deployed Splunk Enterprise (SIEM) for Centralized logging
- Enhanced logging using Sysmon
- Deployed Snort Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
- Forwarded all logs, including Snort logs, using Universal Forwarders
Security Compliance and Monitoring Lab
- Deployed Wazuh into Active Directory Environment
- Supported compliance using the CIS Benchmark tool
- Configured FIM to detect integrity violations on a user’s Desktop directory
- Configured the Vulnerability Scanning module and scanned the Domain Controller and Windows 10 host
Vulnerability Management Lab
- Installed and Configured Nessus Essentials within an Active Directory Environment
- Conducted Non-Credentialed and Credentialed scans for baselining
- Remediated critical and high vulnerabilities
Active Directory Management
- Managed an Active Directory environment on Windows Server 2019
- Implemented and maintained AD DNS and DHCP services
- Implemented a Remote Access Server to support NAT
- PowerShell was used to automate the creation of 200+ User Accounts
GitHub
These are the Python projects on my GitHub
- Network Scanner
- Phone and Email Web Scraper
- SSH Bruteforce Script
- Directory Enumerator
- Subdomain Enumerator
Potential Upcoming Projects
These are projects that I’m interested in and will most likely explore soon.
- AWS
- Elastic Search (ELK Stack)
- Suricata
- Lima Charlie
- Zeek
- Malware Analysis and Creation
Writeups / Reports
Reports from Tryhackme and Hackthebox rooms
The CVE Number has a link to the actual report created by MITRE while the Name of the Machine/Room is a link to my writeup.
These writeups help me work on my reporting, keeping my technical skill sharp, developing the mindset of an attacker which is crucial for a defender, and being educated on vulnerabilities and exploits used in the past.
Vulnerability: CVE-2015-3306 “mod_copy module”
Tags: Nmap Scan, SMB enumeration, FTP exploit, SSH, and SUID escalation
TryHackMe Room
Vulnerability: CVE-2007-2447 “’Username’ map script’ Command Execution”
Tags: Nmap Scan, SMB exploit/escalation
HackTheBox Room
Steel Mountain
This Report is still being worked on.
Vulnerability:
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