Enumeration can be used to gain information hacking course

Calculation comes under the first stage of Ethical Hacking, i.e. "collecting information"
This is a process where the attacker establishes an active connection with the victim and try to discover as much attack vectors as possible, which can be used to exploit the systems further.

Enumeration can be used to gain information on:

Network shares
SNMP data, if they are not secured properly
IP tables
Usernames of different systems
Passwords policies lists

Enumerations depend on the services that the systems offer. They can be:

DNS enumeration
NTP enumeration
SNMP enumeration
Linux/Windows enumeration
SMB enumeration

Let us now discuss some of the tools that are widely used for Enumeration.

NTP Suite

NTP Suite is used for NTP enumeration. This is important because in a network environment, you can find other primary servers that help the hosts to update their times and you can do it without authenticating the system.

Take a look at the following example.

ntpdate 192.168.1.100

01 Sept 12:50:49 ntpdate[627]: adjust time server 192.168.1.100 offset -

0.005030 sec

ntpdc [-ilnps] [-c command] [hostname/IP_address]

root@test]# ntpdc -c sysinfo 192.168.1.100

***Warning changing to older implementation

***Warning changing the request packet size from 160 to 48 system peer: 192.168.1.101

system peer mode: client

2nd

leap indicator: 00
stratum: 5

precision: -15
root distance: 0.00107 s
root dispersion: 0.02306 s
reference ID: [192.168.1.101]
reference time: f66s4f45.f633e130,
Sept 01 2016 22:06:23.458 system flags:
monitor ntp stats calibrate
jitter: 0.000000 s
stability: 4.256 ppm
broadcastdelay: 0.003875 s
authdelay: 0.000107 s

enum4linux

enum4linux is used to enumerate Linux systems. Take a look at the following screenshots and see how we got the usernames in the target host.

smtp-user-enum
smtp-user-enum tries to guess usernames by using SMTP service. Take a look at the following screenshot to understand how it does so.

Quick Fix
It is recommended to disable all services that you don’t use. This reduces the possibilities of OS counting services running on your system.

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