Privilege Escalation is the process where the attacker gains un-authorized access rights or higher-level privileges of software/program, network or system. This is the next phase of a cyber security attack after the Footprinting, Scanning, Enumeration, Vulnerability Analysis and Exploitation. Horizontal Privilege Escalation is where the attacker tries to gain the access other users like file…
Category: Enumeration
NetBIOS Enumeration
NetBIOS is a legacy API that was used for communication between systems on LAN. Each system had an unique NetBIOS name assigned to it. When a machine wanted to connect to other system, it would resolve the NetBIOS name of the target system to it’s corresponding IP address and then connect. NetBIOS had vulnerabilities and…
Enumeration
Enumeration is part of Reconnaissance phase done after the scanning. During Enumeration phase, attacker creates active session with the live target host and gathers more detailed data than that was obtained during Scanning Phase. Please note that Enumeration is different from scanning. In scanning phase, the information like IP address, Ports, OS and vulnerabilities from…