by Mike Saunders | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog Posts
This is the third installment in a series of blogs on user enumeration. In Part 1 – Building Name Lists, I talked about ways of building usernames from OSINT and US census data. In this installment, I’m going to discuss putting this info to work in...
by Mike Saunders | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog Posts
A common tactic used by pen testers, “red teams”, and threat actors is searching for Group Policy Preference (GPP) files with usernames and passwords. These XML files, stored in the domain SYSVOL, are used to create local administrator accounts, map...
by Mike Saunders | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog Posts
It’s not uncommon on external pen tests and red team engagements to find very little attack surface on the customer’s internet-facing networks. Customers have started shifting services to cloud providers, making it harder to find targets. This blog...
by Mike Saunders | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog Posts
A common part of pen tests – both network and web app – is password spraying. In order to do that, you need usernames. But how do you find out what your target’s usernames are? This is the first in a series of posts to discuss user enumeration and...
by Mike Saunders | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog Posts
In many tests, we end up having to do some kind of password cracking, Kerberoasted hashes, hashes dumped from the SAM or ntds.dit, or some other kind of hash. When cracking, especially when we have a bunch of SPNs or we’ve got the ntds.dit, we aren’t...
