July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
712 pages
17h 36m
English
book
Improving your Penetration Testing Skills
by Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh
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- We will start enumeration by using the Windows Gather Installed Application Enumeration post-exploitation module, which will enumerate all installed applications:
msf > use post/windows/gather/enum_applicationsmsf post(enum_applications) > set SESSION 1SESSION => 1msf post(enum_applications) > run[*] Enumerating applications installed on VAGRANT-2008R2Installed Applications====================== Name Version ---- ------- 7-Zip 16.04(x64) 16.04 Java 8 Update 144 8.0.1440.1 Java 8 Update 144 (64-bit) 8.0.1440.1 Java Auto Updater 2.8.144.1 Java SE Development Kit 8 8.0.1440.1Update 144 (64-bit) ...msf post(enum_applications) >
Looking at the output of the module, we can see how this could be useful during a penetration test. ...
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