Enumeration

Basic Enumeration using Command Prompt and PowerShell

User Enumeration

Local user checks

# check local user
net user
# check local admin member
net localgroup administrators
# check user "asuka"
net user asuka

Check local user privileges

# check priv
whoami /priv
whoami /all
# check group information of current user
whoami /groups
whoami /user /groups

Enumerate domain user

# check domain user
net user /domain
# check domain user "asuka-domain"
net user asuka-domain /domain
# check domain group
net group /domain
# Check Domain Admins member
net group "Domain Admins" /domain

Architecture Checks

What the Windows version installed? What aarch of windows running? x64? x86?

Why: Knowing this information will make the decision about the exploit or the crafted payload better.

ver
wmic os get osarchitecture

Hostname Checks

What hostname of this computer? Is this computer join AD?

Why: Knowing this information will make the attack path decision clear.

hostname
whoami
systeminfo | findstr /B "Domain"
set userdomain

Network Checks

Why: Knowing this information will improve the mapping of the internal network pentest.

ipconfig to displays all the networking information of the current PC your connected to.

ipconfig
ipconfig /all
route PRINT

netstat is a command-line network utility that displays network connections for Transmission Control Protocol, routing tables, and a number of network interface and network protocol.

netstat
netstat -ano

Firewall Checks

Windows Firewall checks using netsh in CMD.

Why: Knowing this information will improve the decision-making process for data transfer.

netsh advfirewall show currentprofile
netsh advfirewall show allprofiles
netsh firewall show state
Get-Service -Name mpssvc # powershell

Defender Checks

Why: Knowing this information will help determine whether AV evasion is necessary.

sc query windefend # cmd
Get-Service -Name windefend # powershell

OS Checks

Find OS version, arch used, and OS name.

Why: Knowing this information is necessary for searching public exploits against the installed version.

systeminfo
systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version" /C:"System Type"

Running Proccess

Enumerate the running proccess.

Why: Knowing this information is necessary for searching public exploits against the running service or proccess.

tasklist /SVC

Check Process using PowerShell

Get-Process | Select-Object Name, Id
Get-Process -Id 2180 | Format-List *

Check process

Installed Patches

What patches are installed?

Why: Knowing this information is necessary for searching public exploits against the installed patches.

wmic qfe

Installed Apps

What app installed in this computer?

Why: Knowing this information is necessary for searching public exploits against the installed apps.

wmic product get name, version, vendor

Search cleartext creds

findstr /si password *.txt
findstr /si password *.xml
findstr /si password *.ini

# Find all those strings in config files.
dir /s *pass* == *cred* == *vnc* == *.config*

# Find all passwords in all files.
findstr /spin "password" *.*
findstr /spin "password" *.*

Scheduled Task Checks

Schtasks /query /fo LIST /v

Document Metadata

Read metadata of document/files in Powershell

 Get-Item "C:\Users\Nakano\Documents\docs.docx" | Select-Object -Property *

Check Powershell History

(Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath

Or, the default location for the PowerShell command history:

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHo
st_history.txt

i.e

C:\Users\student\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\Console
Host_history.txt

Check PowerShell Transcript

When a user starts a PS transcript the command log file is generated. The default location for the PowerShell Transcript is: C:\Users%username%\Documents i.e C:\Users\student\Documents.

cd C:\Users\student\Documents
ls
cat PowerShell_transcript.PRIV-ESC.uFAz6NOs.20201029121705.txt | Select-String -Pattern
"pass*"

Check Registry Autologon

reg query 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon' /v
DefaultUserName
reg query 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon' /v
DefaultPassword
reg query 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon' /v
AutoAdminLogon

Resources

• Windows - Privilege Escalation

• Windows - Persistence

Note: This page is incomplete and will be regularly updated. If you have any ideas or resources that need to be added, please contact me at [e-mail].