Packet Tracer – Using File and Data Integrity Checks
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Part 3: Verify the Integrity of the Client Files using Hashing
Step 1: Check the hashes on the client files on Mike’s PC.
a. Within the Gotham Healthcare Branch site, click the PC Mike.
b. Click the Desktop tab and then click Text Editor.
c. In the Text Editor window, click File > Open.
d. Click on the first document NEclients.txt and click OK.
e. Copy the entire text document contents.
f. Open a web browser on your personal computer and browse to the website
https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/hash/
g. Click the whitespace and paste in the text document contents. Make sure the algorithm is set to md2.
Click Hash this!.
h. To make sure a file has not been tampered with, you will compare the resulting hash with the
filename/hash information you found in Part 2 Step 1.
i. Repeat Steps d through h for each client file and compare the generated hash with the original hash
shown in Part 2 Step 1.
Which file has been tampered with and has an incorrect hash?
Step 2: Download the suspected file to Sally’s PC.
a. Click the Metropolis Bank HQ site, and then click the PC Sally.
b. Click the Desktop tab and then click Command Prompt.
c. Connect to the Backup File server by entering ftp www.cisco2.corp in the command prompt.
d. Enter the username of sally and a password of cisco123.
e. At the ftp> prompt, enter the command dir to view the current files stored on the remote FTP server.
f. Download the file that was found to have been tampered with in Part 3 Step 1.
g. At the ftp> prompt, enter the command quit.
h. At the PC> prompt, enter the command dir and verify the tampered client file is now on Sally’s PC for
analysis at a later time.
Part 4: Verify the Integrity of Critical Files using HMAC
Step 1: Compute the HMAC of a critical file.
a. Within the Metropolis Bank HQ site, click the PC Bob.
b. Click the Desktop tab and then click Command Prompt.
c. At the PC> prompt, enter the command dir and verify the critical file named income.txt is on Bob’s PC.
d. Within the Desktop tab, click Text Editor.
e. In the Text Editor window, click File > Open.
f. Click the document income.txt and click OK.
g. Copy the entire text document contents.