3.1 - Host & User Identification

Host Identification

Fping

The fping tool allows quick identification of active hosts within a network range. For instance:

fping -asgq 192.168.1.0/24

Parameters Explained:

• -a: Display only active hosts.

• -s: Print statistics at the end of the scan.

• -g: Generate a list of destinations from a CIDR network.

• -q: Suppress output for individual hosts.

Once the scan is complete, you can create a list of active hosts for further enumeration.

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Nmap

nmap can also be used to perform a Ping Scan for host discovery:

sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24

Parameters Explained:

• -sn: Skip port scanning and focus on host discovery by sending ICMP echo requests.

This scan provides a list of active hosts within the network. After identifying live hosts, we can move to detailed enumeration to identify services, critical hosts (e.g., domain controllers, web servers), and potential vulnerabilities.

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Nmap Advanced Scans

1. Enumerate Active Hosts from a List

   sudo nmap -v -A -iL hosts.txt -oN hostEnum

   • -v: Increase verbosity.

   • -A: Perform OS detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute.

   • -iL: Input file containing list of target hosts.

   • -oN: Save results in a standard output format.

2. Comprehensive Port Scan

   nmap -p- -sS --open --min-rate 5000 -vvv -Pn -n 192.168.1.10 -oG scanPorts

   • -p-: Scan all 65,535 ports.

   • -sS: Perform a TCP SYN scan.

   • --open: Display only open ports.

   • --min-rate 5000: Ensure a minimum scan rate of 5000 packets per second.

   • -Pn: Skip ping checks.

   • -n: Skip DNS resolution.

   • -oG: Save results in greppable format for easy parsing.

3. Targeted Service Scan

   nmap -sCV -p <PORTS> 192.168.1.10 -oN targeted

   • -sCV: Perform service and version detection, and run default scripts.

   • -p: Specify ports to scan.

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User Identification

Obtaining Valid Domain Users

Kerbrute

Kerbrute is a stealthy tool for enumerating domain accounts by exploiting Kerberos pre-authentication failures, which often avoid logging or alerts:

kerbrute userenum -d DC.LOCAL --dc 192.168.1.1 usernames.txt -o valid_ad_users.txt

Extract valid usernames from results:

cat valid_ad_users.txt | awk -F "VALID USERNAME:\t" '{print $2}' | tr -d ' ' | sed '/^$/d' | awk -F '@' '{print $1}' | tee users.txt

1. Checking for Passwords Matching Usernames Some users may have their username as their password:

kerbrute bruteuser -d DC.LOCAL -dc 192.168.1.1 usernames.txt passwords.txt

PowerView

• Find all machines on the current domain where the current user has local admin access

  Find-LocalAdminAccess -Verbose

• Find computers where a domain admin (or specified user/group) has sessions:

  Find-DomainUserLocation -Verbose
  Find-DomainUserLocation -UserGroupIdentity "RDPUsers"

Invoke Session Hunter

https://github.com/Leo4j/InvokeSessionHuntergithub.com

• List sessions on remote machines Users

  . C:\AD\Tools\Invoke-SessionHunter.ps1
  Invoke-SessionHunter -FailSafe
  Invoke-SessionHunter -NoPortScan -RawResults | select Hostname,UserSession,Access

Labs

Refers to Learning Object 7 lab