Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

Interpreting the scan and building on the result

In the following screenshot, we can see the results of the scanner run by typing the following:

exploit  

We can see that the scan failed but did give us valuable information. First, by the scan failing, we now know that there are no shares open to the Everyone group. We can tell by the response that the service is active but refusing to allow a connection. Second, we can see that, in fact, the guest account is disabled. One could say this has led nowhere but from this we have determined the service is active and accepting connections from our IP address. This is important information for our next move:

The SMB service uses RPC pipes to transfer information and the RPC service is known for ...