Password Hacking Using Hashcat, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit

I have been given this assignment by Dr. Roger Shore as my final exam to conduct a penetration test on a metasploitable 3 Virtual Machine in order to determine its exposure to a targeted attack. All activities are conducted in a manner that simulates a malicious actor engaged in a targeted attack against the VM with the goal: determine the password for each individual in the class. I have successfully been able to recover the passwords for each user using hashcat command.