COMP 552 Introduction To Cybersecurity Winter 2022

Lab Report #:Multiboot USB tool kit

Due Date: 14 Feb 2022
Submission Method: Dropbox

Submitted by: Navpreet Kaur

Student ID: 10270950
Section: 2
Date submitted: 14 Feb 2022
Instructor submitted to: George Seto

Introduction:

The overall purpose of the lab is to provide knowledge about the multiboot USB toolkit. How to
install ventoy tool along with checking all hash values and Kali Linux as well as other distros to
install. It also provides information about utilities to install and what type of other tools are
helpful for this field. The difference between BIOS and UEFI is provided in the lab also describes
how IT professionals utilize the tools in, multiboot USB drives.

Activities:

In this lab multiple activities were performed which are given below:

Firstly, an activity was performed to download the Ventoy tool and check all downloaded file
integrity or hash values as well as screenshots of hash values were asked to collect.
Moreover, the Installation of Ventoy was discussed and to format USB drive as stored
information will be lost.
Next, after installing Kali than after selecting one from other distros, such as Ubuntu, Linux
Mint, RedHat, OpenSuse, etc. hash values were asked to take.
In the next step, two utilities were selected to install hash values.
Furthermore, after doing the installation were asked to do a complete reboot and demonstrate
that you have completed the task using the screenshot of your selected linux distro
Moving further, activity was performed to provide a reason behind the selection of specific
utilities
Apart from this, research was done that what other types of tools can be seen from the Ventoy
menu that would be useful in the field.
Also, research was done to provide a distinction between BIOS and UEFI to boot and to discuss
my current system using BIOS and UEFI to boot. Along with,to explain how can an IT
professional utilize the tools on your multiboot drive

Discussion:

• Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for

ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With, Ventoy you don't need to format the disk over and
over. You just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot
them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to
select them (screenshot).

• To check file integrity:

All downloaded files can be checked and the checksum tool is used to check file integrity.
Mostly checksum tools are command-line tools that don't let you scare off.

After the installation of Ventoy format od USB drive is needed as stored information will be
lost.

• Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linus distribution geared towards various

information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer
Forensics, and Reverse Engineering.
• Two utilities and reasons to install them :
1) Nmap- Network mapper, mostly known as Nmap in short form, is a free, open-source
utility used for network discovery and vulnerability scanning. Nmap is used by security
professionals to discover running in their environment. Moreover, the services, and ports each
host is serving, exposing potential security can also be revealed by Nmap. Flexibility to monitor
a single host or vast network including hundreds if not thousands of devices and subnets is
offered by Nmap. Furthermore, Nmap is a port scanning tool that collects information by
sending raw packets to a host system. Nmap then listens for responses and determines if a
port is open, closed, or filtered.

2)Metasploit- The Metasploit Framework is an open-source project that provides a

public resource for researching vulnerabilities and developing code with the assistance of which
security professionals can infiltrate their network and identify security risks and vulnerabilities.
Metasploit is very robust with its features and flexibility and another common reason to utilize it
is the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Metasploit is being considered as an advanced utility and
requires some time to become familiar, once it gets familiar it will be an invaluable resource.

• Difference between BIOS and UEFI

UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmwork Interface. It does the same job as a BIOS, but
with one basic difference, it stores all data about initialization and startup in a .efi file, instead of
sorting it on firmware. UEFI was designed to overcome the limitations of BIOS, UEFI supports
drive sizes up to 9 zettabytes, whereas BIOS only supports 2.2 terabytes.UEFI provides faster
boot time.UEFI has discrete drive support, while BIOS has drive support stored in its ROM,
updation of BIOS firmware is a bit difficult Secure boot type security is provided by UEFI which
prohibits the PC to boot unsigned applications.

BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System that operates by reading the first sector of the hard
drive which has the address of the next device to initialize or code executed. The boot device
which is required to initialize for starting the operating system is also selected by BIOS.BIOS
uses The Master Boot Record (MBR) to save information about the hard device while UFEI uses
the GUID partition table (GPT). The main difference between MBR and GPT is that the former
uses 32-bit entries in its table while the latter uses 64-bit entries in its table which extends the
support for size possibilities of the hard drive.

How this multiboot drive is useful for IT professionals

Dual booting enables you to go from a powered-off state to a menu from which you can choose
which operating system to load. This menu may have one, two, or even more options, and each
choice loads the environment.

Conclusion:

In nutshell, in this lab, we learned about different types of tools such as Ventoy and Kali Linux
for storing information using a USB drive and I learned about how to check file integrity using
tools and how to take screenshots of hash values of downloaded values. Moreover, I also
acquired information that after installing the tool format of the USB drive is required as stored
information will be lost. Furthermore, I also gained information about another type of utilities to
install of my own choice as well as I learned to reboot the system using the USB drive. Apart
from this, I gathered information about what we should consider for selecting distinct utilities as
well as what type of other tools we can see from the ventoy menu that would be useful to you in
your field. I learned about the distinction between BIOS and UEFI boot and also gained
knowledge about how can an IT professional utilize the tools on your multiboot USB drive.

References:

Vaibhav Kandwal. ( Aug 10, 2020). UEFI vs BIOS: what's the difference. Retrieved from
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/uefi-vs-bios/

Mike Tee, (Nov 26, 2021). Difference between UEFI and BIOS and which one you should
use. Retrieved from https://www.maketecheasier.com/differences-between-uefi-and-
bios/

Lawrance Williams, (Jan 1, 2022). Kali Linux tutorial for beginners. What is, How to
install and use. Retrieved from https://www.guru99.com/kali-linux-tutorial.html